A Writer's Notebook, Two-Thousand-And-One-Hundred-And-Eight

I feel that I am starting to get a better sense of the ways that I want to use fiction, at least some of them.  There are a number of different modes that I find myself writing in when I am crafting stories, often involving elements of both craft and conception in ways that I don't think I would have really shifted through as I have found myself doing.  I think that I am developing a sense of what I am able to do in stories, and particularly am learning to craft certain types of stories that I might have found more challenging in the past.  In specific, I think I am getting better at exploring very small things, even things that are more mundane or common, but with an eye towards using that to expose aspects of a characters thinking that are intended to represent a certain type of experience and thought process.  It makes sense that writing more would help me to learn and grow, it is just nice to feel that I can actually recognize that progress for myself because it is often difficult to recognize changes when they only occur as a result of internal shifts in thinking that have happened gradually and through intuition.

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