"To write a IM, is for sensitive artists less a way to compromise them!" To paraphrase an American publicist: "When you create something and present it to the public, you find yourself on a windswept plain with your pants down." Primadonna behaviour usually hurts your artistic development. (generic you, ihr as opposed to du/Sie) Take a look at the reviews of the latest book by Anne Rice on amazon, where she got offended by the harsh reviews and said that "she worked so hard on the book to let an editor meddle with it." Yeah, right. All of us benefit from an editor. Of course, some much less than the others, but still... In the same way, all of us benefit from criticism. And I'm not counting comments like "worst render evah" as criticism.

-- erlik