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Originally Posted by teh603
I disagree with rule 3. There's a few times when I've rewritten something shortly after writing it, and it worked better. Course, there's been just as many where I've rewritten and then found myself spamming control-Z (meta-Z when I was still running MacOS, since I've been using the same windows keyboard since '05 or so) to undo the changes I'd made. Its a dice roll every time.
Rule 5 is probably also less relevant in the days of ebook publishers and their reduced overhead.
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To be honest I agree with you. I think he was just being his pedantic self when he wrote that. I can see only you have a piece in shape, then to edit it needlessly is wrong, but if you have a good reason to change it then GO FOR IT! I say.
Again, with #5 it's a judgement call....