Well, there's a difference, and maybe I wasn't being too clear (I really can outBridge Bridge half the time when I'm not imitating Sky), in that I am very uncritical of stuff. It's not really spotting what's wrong, it's an overpoliteness. It is easier to spot the right things when you share a brain with your beta (I've had some of those), but me... I'm very reluctant to criticize. Even with people who can take it. For example, if I ripped one of your stories apart in a critical review, in constructive criticism, I wouldn't be afraid that you'd flame me to high heaven. And yet, I'm afraid of doing it because it *might* happen. My brain is weird.

I don't see it as weird on your part. For me, being critical of both my own writing and that of others was a learned skill. I want to be a professional writer, and thus need to be able to handle harsher crit. So I had to teach myself to not only be able to step back from my work and look at the bad and the good, but to really see it in other work as well. The downside is that I enjoy less fanfics though.

And I know what you mean about worries of flaming. I've adopted the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy for myself. Unless you hunt me down and specifically ask my opinion on your fic, I won't tell you the warts.