Marsh critiqued a short story of mine this week and said an interesting thing that I will probably get wrong in paraphrasing . She said that it was the first time a story of mine rang with the same compelling authority ( artistically ) that she sees in some of my non - fiction . Those were n't her exact words , and she acknowledged she could n't quite put into words what she meant . I responded that when I 'd written the piece , I 'd felt a much stronger ability ( than I 'd felt before in writing ) to just include what was important and omit what was n't important . " But you had decided what was important .

What may be a fact about the speaker ?
They are getting better at writing fiction stories .