It was good to see you defend against some of the 10PTT suggested changes. It tells me you had something particular in mind when you wrote those bits. That you composed with care and for deliberate effect. That's reason enough to favor the original in those cases.
These 10PTTs are an externalization of the inner dialogue churning in all writers as we pound words onto the page. Is there a better way? Is this good enough? Is it clear? Sometimes the answer is yes straight away. Questioning is part of the continuous revision process. Novelists are lucky. They have an editor nipping at their heels, pushing to make it better, better, better, then okay, now it's ready to publish. Screenwriters don't have that.
I meant to say this a while ago, but I kept forgetting -- I wasn't defending against the changes or whatever. In fact, I agreed with a lot of what you said. But yeah, I'm not arrogant enough to believe my shit doesn't need changes. Like you said, we have to stay open to new ideas and ways of doing things. That's how this shit works. You can't be stuck to anything.
So anyway, I just wanted to say that -- don't want you to think your observations were shit or anything.
