Senior Project, Part 6

I'm feeling very unsure and insecure about this whole story. It's back to that old debate again that discourages me so much, that you can only write what you know. I don't think it's true -- or maybe I'm just desperate to believe it's not true because it would be so limiting, so limiting. Now I'm getting into the part where people are actually scuba diving and I don't even know what I don't know. This is so difficult. I cut all of the bits about people with accents because two people commented on it and I felt weird about it myself. Now it's better but I just don't know, I just don't know. My off-campus advisor is reading a draft now and she wants to meet with me about it and she sounded very solemn over the phone, which has given me the willies. I should be able to handle criticism better than this. And it might not even be criticism!
The ending has to tie it all together -- rising too fast, wanting to be an adult and wanting to be a child, Suzy seeing one unselfish side of her brother, that breaking upwards from deep water, up into light -- these are all the fragmented ideas floating around right now.