How to Identify a Good Critique

by Lazarus Black

First, this is NOT a rant telling writers to not argue with a critique. There are bad critics out there who insist that they are allowed to say whatever they want - no matter how rude and/or ignorant - and writers need to just sit quietly and take the abuse. There are other bad critics who take a position that the critic is allowed to espouse vagueries, poorly defined cliche's, ill-coined terms, etc. as if they are gospel to be "grokked" by the author who meditates upon them un...