C

‘WHAT ARE WORDS?’

C is for CRITICISM or CRITIQUE {criticism~the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone in an intelligible(or articulate) way. critique~the method of disciplined systematic analysis of a written or oral discourse. Commonly understood as fault finding and negative judgment, but it can also involve merit recognition.}

In a perfect world there would only be constructive CRITICSM. But, we don’t live in a perfect world. All too often CRITICISM comes in only one form – fault finding. It hurts everyone.

CRITIQUE is another animal all together. Writers (as distinguished from authors or those who are published) crave a good critique. We believe it will make us better, help us to resolve the unresolved, lead us to becoming authors. A necessary evil, masquerading as good (or maybe god as I first mistyped). Be careful that those CRITIQUES/CRITICISMS do not become vampires.

From Title of Show ‘Die Vampire Die’

“The Vampire of Despair who creeps into your head at four AM to say…

   Who do you think you are kidding?

   You look like a fool.

   No matter how hard you try, you’ll never be good enough.

If some dude walked up to me on a subway platform and said these things, I would think he was some mentally ill 
  a—hole.

BUT, if the vampire in my head says it…

     It’s the voice of reason.”

Be careful what you put into your head. CRITICISM and CRITIQUES may be a necessary evil, but first trust those to whom to lend yourself, else your ATTITUDE becomes BELLIGERENT and you succumb to the ‘Vampire of Despair’.

{definitions courtesy of Wikipedia or Wiktionary}

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