I agree with the process of discovery - but would personally prefer that to be communicated in the first person (which I personally find clearer and more enjoya

I agree with the process of discovery - but would personally prefer that to be communicated in the first person (which I personally find clearer and more enjoyable to read). As in telling the true story which is probably “I wondered how ports work, then I did this, then I wrote this script, then it had an unexpected result”, which still reads as discovery to an audience (but is the authentic and true story). IMO Readers will find a true story interesting if told with authenticity and passion. For fiction, you generally need ‘an ununsual thing’ in the story that happens that breaks it away from normality. I think this treads the awkward space inbetween - it’s made up (so no authenticity) but that authenticity isn’t replaced by something ‘unusual’ that drives the story forward. > Maybe the prose went a little further than it needed to, or as you suggest not far enough. I think this is right - although I don’t think there is a happy medium between those points. I think you can go in either direction (further or less), but straddling the middle is the tough bit.