Best Crit Ever

Last night we had our monthly meeting of Critical Mass, our local workshop. Usually our critiques tend to be a bit rambling and tentative, or at least mine do, but last night’s most incisive crit came from new writer (and my former Clarion student) Ian Tregillis.

I reconstruct it as best as I can:

“If I’m feeling oppressed and need to unburden myself, and my choice of audience is between a woman who loves me and the man who tortured me by running electric current through my balls, then I’ll pick the woman. Even though I don’t love her and she might misunderstand and cause a problem I’ll have to deal with later, I’ll pick the woman, because at least she’s not running an electric current through my balls!“

That summed things up rather well, I thought.