Why is it Easier?

As I continue building my double broadsword form for this year I'm finding the whole process much easier than it was last year, and I wanted to try to get to the bottom of why this is. 

1) Having the experience of building a form last year helped familiarize myself with the process? 

Last year in certain sections I really had to fight to think on what sort of technique would or could come after the one I just did. Having never done anything like it before I felt I was in the dark a lot of the time. But having done it once before now my thought process is more accustomed to analyzing a form in terms of creation and not just replicating/performing an already existing form. Like making a path through thick jungle, this time around there's less in my way.

2) Having a two handed weapon gives me more options?

Any time I get stuck, or try to think of what will come next in the sequence, I find I'm having an easier time finding answers because there's so much available to me. I can come up with something for the right hand to do, and then I can decide if the left hand is going to move with it, or opposite it, or move independently but together, and I can combine strikes, blocks, stabs, slashes, and spins across both hands (as I'm writing this out I am realizing that I largely ignored my left hand in my sword form last year. As I was building the form I left it alone to do "whatever it needed to do" to support my dominant hand. There was at least one section where I actively involved it, but I also noticed near the end of last year that in some sections it wasn't doing much at all, which was a problem and is also part of the reason I chose double broadswords for this year.)

3) the sphere of possibility is larger?

We all have that little "bubble" that tells us how far we can extend during a technique before we start to get diminishing returns on power, and when I have both swords in hand, that "bubble" gets much larger. We always talk about the cliché of work so that the weapon becomes an extension of your body but this is the first time that really clicked for me. I think before when I was only using one sword I was looking at it like a tool, something to wield but something separate from myself. I think having two swords replicates having two hands and my body is able to move in ways that are similar to how I would move without the swords, just on a much larger scale. And I think this larger area of potential gives me more options because the range of motion I have is larger. 

I still have a ways to go, both in becoming more comfortable with both my swords and furthering the building of my form, but the process itself feels like it's going much smoother this time around.