After two fiction workshops, I've noticed my main weakness is that I tend to focus more on external conflict. As much as I try to focus on the internal, the focus always seems to remain on the external. It is so frustrating. It seems like such a simple concept and I feel that I shouldn't have trouble with it at this point, but it still confuses me.
Reading the short stories this semester helped by showing me differences in technique and also by inspiring me. I'm going to keep reading and practice and hopefully one day it will click and it will happen in my own stories naturally.
As I near the completion of my English degree, I've realized that writing is much harder than I thought! But I know that I love it enough to keep trying and that I have plenty of time and need to not be so hard on myself. Working full time and going to school tends to exhaust my brain so I'm tempted to blame it on this too. But I'm not ready to give up yet!
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