Oh, no. One person would be fine. It's just that I often don't have that one person. Sometimes, if a friend has read the same thing, or sometimes I'll blather on about it to Best Beloved. But of course BB hasn't read the story in question, and often I don't know anyone who has. Which isn't to say that doesn't work, because it somewhat does, just - not as well.

I guess partly I feel weird about inflicting my story analyses directly on one person, if that makes sense. In my LJ, it's more of - I have no expectation that someone will actually read, so if anyone chooses to, it's on them. Whereas in one-on-one conversation I feel kind of bad about endlessly dumping the contents of my brain on people.

*thinky*

You know, maybe a private LJ post would for this. Next time, I should totally try that and see.