I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.