To write in response to or in opposition to something another person has written; to respond with written rebuttal.
From counter- + write. A literary term that emerged to describe the practice of writing responses, rebuttals, or opposing arguments in written form.
When authors write responses to critics or rival authors write competing versions of a story, they're counterwriting—it's how intellectual debates happened before social media, through published articles and books.
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