Re: Re : Skip the critics

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>As for criticism per se, I actually really like people telling me 
>what's wrong with my work about 90% of the time, because ultimately 
>you want to make it better. Nothing's worse than working in a vacuum, 
>not really knowing anymore what's good or bad. But the other 10% 
>hurts you like hell, but it's like anything - you have to learn from 
>it and live with it.
>
>Camille


As I writer, I agree that criticism is vital to the craft.  As a reader, 
however, the one-sided nature of published criticism does little for me.  
In order to learn something I feel I can *use*, whether the use is 
intellectual, moral, aesthetic, or casual, most of the time I feel that 
a dialogue is necessary.  As I've said, reading criticism I either find 
myself agreeing or disagreeing, and it ends there.  In a place like 
bananafish, we can discuss freely for as long as the subject holds our 
interest.  

Brendan

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