The answer to question one is both. Both of those are introspection and it's a tell rather than a show mentality. Any writing professor will tell you that you need more showing than telling. While a little introspection is a good thing, it's never good when there's so much of it that it takes thirty pages for your character to walk downstairs. According to all of the writing professors I've ever had, there needs to be more action and narrative than introspection. Both they and all of my fiction writing manuals say that introspection should be used sparingly. *Some* is good, but pages and pages of it isn't.
Laura (who is majoring in Creative Writing)
“Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.”
--Thomas Moore
"Keep an open mind, I always say. Drives sensible people mad, I know, but what did we ever get from sensible people? Not poetry or art or music, that's for sure."
--Charles de Lint, Someplace to Be Flying
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