Subject: [FFML][Spam]Purposes of criticizing others' fics
From: "Miller, Bert" <bert.miller@unisys.com>
Date: 5/15/1999, 2:01 PM
To: "'ffml@fanfic.com'" <ffml@fanfic.com>

Saotome Akane wrote:
I don't like dwelling
on it, saying.. "hmm.. how do I improve this fic.."
 (I feel like these comments are so immature.. See this is why I 
usually don't do comments.) So respect these few people who voice
 their opinions because they're  only trying to help. 

There is another reason for picking a random fic off of the list
and writing a critique of it:  the critic, as well, learns more
about story-telling, from the effort of trying to figure out what
worked, what didn't, and why, in another person's story.

The science-fiction writer James Blish deliberately worked as
a reader at a magazine, just to get the opportunity to do this.