Owning it

Sometimes when people respond to critique, they wonder whether to adopt certain suggestions. The internal debate might sound like this: "I don't know about this ... but I really trust her judgment ... but I never envisioned it this way ... although I shouldn't be closed-minded ..."

I think a good test for a situation like this--especially if one version of the manuscript isn't screaming "I'm better!" than the other--is to think about what would happen if a reader later criticized me for the c...