At 12:25 AM 12/4/96 -0800, you wrote:

Marisa Price wrote:

If you are going to criticize someone's fic, do it personally, don't post
it to the list! Unless it is USEFUL criticism and not just "Not much of
anything to give me the urge to read on."

	I personally agree with this.  I think Suds-Kun's doing pretty good
with his reviews, because it is not as 'personal', shall we say.  

I wholeheartedly concur. Suds-Kun does a WONDEFUL job with his reviews,
carefull explaing why the story was rated they way it was. This has often
been VERY helpful for both the potential reader and the writer. As far as
the writer is concerned, I know that I went from a 5 one month to a 3 the
next... so I knew something was wrong. I used that information (and
suggestions from others) to improve the piece.
Structured critisim IS useful.

	I do not mind that much if someone wrote to me and said the story
sucks, as long as it was useful criticism, like what I did with the
story I posted last month.  But, like I've noted in some people's
writing as well, 'Criticisms which just says 'you suck' is not
appreciated'.

Don

Well said... thanks...

MDP