Hm. I wonder if her fiction/non-fiction comment is also partly because she finds writing fiction (more) difficult? At a much lower level, in my t.b days I found it pretty easy to write "lab reports", but difficult to construct pieces of fiction which I didn't hate. I'm not sure if this is because I "care" more about the fiction and therefore demand more of it, but it did have a side-effect of making me want to write fiction more, to prove something-or-other to myself...
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Oh, and GIF GIF GIF! (someone had to say it)