This is really good! I think the creative writers struggle with this issue differently than science/tech writers. This may relate to science being based on repeatability of results, so therefore the science writers are socialized to welcome others written opinions analyzing the same subject.

In creative writing the key is to be original, so any other writers expressions in the same genre seem limiting in comparison to ones own. I have great respect for creative writers because they initiate the ideas for everyone else, and that is a difficult task.

Creative people are often very sensitive and tactful, so the conscientiousness required to compare ones writing to another may be an intrinsic part of the vital life expression of a creative person.

Martha Graham said, “There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time this expression is unique. and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it! It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”