Have I mentioned I love your mind? I love your mind. I have a ... slightly different take on concrit, but it comes back to the selfish thing if along a different path.

And yeah, you're gonna hear this if you want to or not, sorry!

But for me, if I offer concrit, it's because I liked your story and I want it to be better. Sometimes that means you're newbie author who has potential but lacks certain knowledge/training and I can offer that. Sometimes it's because there's something in a story that was excellent other than X, which threw me right out and I'd like to go back in, please, so here's how to fix it. Sometimes it's something else entirely. But the end result, honestly, is that if I am offer crit on your story (and I agree about making sure you give one, serious, unqualified compliment, although I don't know that I've always done that), it means your story was good enough to be critted by me. So, you know, selfish. And possibly arrogant *g*

But I think a lot of people forget that people aren't going to offer concrit on something they don't like or feel is a waste of their time. They're going to go do something else that makes them happy, not offer real, genuine concrit. Bitching I can't account for :)

But yeah. This post? Was a thing of beauty.