On Criticism

I’ve got an iA Writer document full of ideas for these pieces – in case of emergency, break open types – but, without fail, I always delete the shards of pieces yet to be that are little more than criticisms (used here solely to connote expressions of disapproval) – not because I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings but because I find it a greater challenge to write about things that I love.

That’s not to say I won’t / don’t / haven’t write / written pieces critical of other works (or the sideshow hucksterism of the world at large): I just prefer, when possible – and let’s be honest, sometimes we just need to say, Look at this fucking bullshit – to include solutions or to make elements of my own work a reaction against the perceived-by-me sins, conscious or otherwise, of the works in question; criticism, then, not as an end in and of itself but as a method by which to explore solutions and new perspectives.

Thus ends my criticism of (or, at least one form of) criticism (which, yes, was among those in-case-of-emergency-break-open type pieces).