Creative Writing 3/9/10

I submitted the second passage of my story, and hope to receive some feedback Thursday, so I'll be able to further improve this story, as I've already gone over the first passage and it seems better, and hopefully I'll be able to see if I need more work on this piece, and thereby be able to include these suggestions in further passages of this work and others.
Overall I feel that I've been able to grow as a writer over my time in this club, as I've been able to identify areas where I may need to pay more attention, as well as having possible trouble areas pointed out to me by other members of the club. This has led me to become better aware of my strengths and weaknesses as a writer, and allows me to best utilize my skills as a writer to produce a story that can resonate with the reader and stick with them.
This second part of my story is, I feel, a better first draft than the original draft of the previous part. It is more concrete, and as I have established the general idea of the story, and, at least in my opinion, the whole story therefore flows better and smoother than the original piece at first try, although there is undoubtedly room for improvement. As a whole, the story still has a long time to go, and I've already written out the next part, although that part is not finalized, it should be ready by the meeting after this Thursday's, and I will hopefully be ready to submit it this weekend. I also hope to be able to combine parts 4 and 5 and submit them together, and hopefully those five will turn out to be the first chapter.