Creative authorship means taking responsibility for what you choose to make and how you shape it, while remaining open to influence, learning and collaboration.
It doesn’t mean doing everything alone. Nor does it mean that the first idea you had must be protected from improvement.
The advice can be excellent. The decision can still be yours.
An editor questions a passage. You look again. Perhaps they’re right about the problem but not about the solution. You can use the insight without handing over the voice of the piece.
Or their suggestion reveals something you couldn’t see. Accepting it doesn’t make the result less yours.
The Creative Hero’s Journey explores this relationship between your judgement and the world meeting your work. Its book I’m Done Asking belongs to the realm Permission, where choices become time, expression and action.
Feedback asks what you need to learn from another person. Embodied Authorship brings attention to what happens physically when you try to stand behind a decision.