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By: Fran (Guest IP 71.54.58.82) on 12-07-2007 10:17

In my opinion, it's your living room. If someone comes into it and shits all over your couch for whatever reason, you have every right to demand that person stop shitting there, put on a diaper, or leave. Don't let your couch get all shitted up because then even YOU can't sit comfortably on it. And if you can't sit comfortably on your own furniture, you've got a real problem.    I gave your article the highest score and clicked it as a favorite--and I'm not "defending" why I like it. Give me a fucking break. But I will say that I think posting Judgment Daze at this time was nice; reading the nasty tone of comments toward here lately has been difficult for me.    I do think you shouldn't let anyone make you defend why you're supportive of each other; writers of like-goals supporting each other should be the default-normal writerly behavior. Writers have got the rest of the world--readers and critics and everyone else--to shit all over their written works. That doesn't necessarily mean they shouldn't technically criticize works from other writers because writers are readers too (and, in my opinion, some writing/language repetition can be particularly psychologically harmful to society so kind of demands criticism), but I think there's a difference between constructive criticism and nasty meant-to-harm backbiting.     I think the publishing world likes keeping writers attacking each other; then writers won't have the time to focus on and ally against the real problem: publishers.

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