In the Void

I once turned down doing a rewrite because I thought the change the editor wanted would completely screw with character nuances and would in essence make the story I wanted to tell completely fall apart. It seemed like a rather minor detail at the time when ask me to change it and I said I would, but the more I tried to think of alternatives, the more I realized I couldn't change this particular aspect without considerably altering the story itself. After consulting with a few trusted readers and asking them if they'd had believability issues with this aspect like the editor had and was told they'd had no issues, I decided I didn't want to change it and wrote the editor back and explained my reasons for not wanting to make the change. I knew he'd reject the story for it, but he was nice about it and we parted ways with no hard feelings.

I've had editors line edit my stuff to a point I wasn't entirely comfortable with what they'd done, but decided it wasn't worth haggling about. I was miffed when one magazine undid all my capitalized pronouns for the Aztec gods but decided that too wasn't worth quarreling about (it was a Christian magazine and so I understood why they did it, but it seemed a bit reactionary to me, since the pronouns were used in dialog and the characters would have extended that particular reverence to their gods. I changed them all back when I submitted it to Anthology Builder though.).