If anyone's interested, I believe the stories she's referring to are
Here (part one):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-oneHere (part two):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/10-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-twoAs for her comments - the body of it (which is essentially complaining about the third person/first person suggestion) is solid, but I found the intro pretty glib. No! Really?!? "You have to learn the rules before you can break them" doesn't make sense as a logical statement! There "really aren't any rules"?! Some people on the internet take things too seriously?!? shock horror....
I guess I was underwhelmed because I'd thought about commenting myself (except I don't blog as a rule) - specifically about how interesting the range of suggestions (no, they even say "rules" at the top) was and how you could break them down into writers who took the suggestion of the project literally or figuratively, applied it to short fiction or novels, assumed it was intended for newbies or as life-learned lesson for career planning, the genre writers over the literary, the wistful over the practical - there's a fascinating range of suggestions made that sometime say more about the particular writer and his assumption about you, the potential/student writer, than they do about the work.
I mean, look at Elmore Leonard's - he obviously approached it as "this is the voice I find most entertaining as a reader and here's how to attain it" - and if you're looking to write like Elmore Leonard, I'm sure that's helpful. Still, his made me feel like I sometimes did reading (well, listening to) Stephen King's ON WRITING, when occasionally I felt he was only barely dodging accidentally writing ON WRITING LIKE STEPHEN KING.
Still, bully for her for hashing out that 1st person/3rd person thing. Write in whatever voice you feel like (even the much maligned 2nd person that everyone seems to hate because you abdicate identity to the author).