Don’t give me a list of the things you don’t like.
A long time ago, I was an early subscriber to the Believer, a magazine put out by McSweeney’s publishing. One of the things I loved about reading it was an editorial philosophy prioritizing positive reviews. I don’t have their exact philosophy, but they reviewed only things they could unequivocally support, and they preferred not running a review to running a negative one.
It’s easy to put things down. It’s easy to name the things you don’t like about something. We all have a bit of the middle school attitude of “put something down to lift myself up.” It’s natural.
But it’s not very constructive.
Tell me something you like. Tell me what lifts you up, what fills your well, what inspires you. It might be a shorter list but it tells me more about you, and it brings more good into the world.