I haven’t written fiction in a really long time, but it has been such a fun challenge for me to step back into it. I really resonated with all the discussions we had in class about raising the stakes and tension, making complicated characters, and making settings feel like real places. In my own writing, I am eager to take my peer’s feedback and adapt it to make something new and better than my original drafts for both my first story and the next one I will do. My biggest goal for this second round of workshop/my second story draft is to try and make a story that has more for the reader to presume/solve. It meant a lot to be in a space that both finds the good and great in your work, but also isn’t afraid to show you where it could be stronger.