I spent the weeks prior getting ready by reading a book that was assigned and doing critiques of ten other writer's work. I also prepared and sent in a ten page piece to be critiqued. I thought I was going to do my thesis on the work I had already done for Revelation Void, and that was what I edited for submission, but I'd been working on a new piece and during the course of the first few days I realized that piece was going to work out a lot better for me.
I have Clear Ether out to be critiqued, but I realize now that it is far from being ready for submission. It's going to require a major overhaul to be in any kind of shape that I would be satisfied with. So Clear Ether is going on the shelf for a bit, along with Revelation Void. I'm cool with it. I have some good ideas to explore for both of these books, but I am switching my focus to my new story. I have just over 15k words so far, but they need to be polished. I am going about this novel in a completely new way for me. I'm actually outlining it first. I actually know how it ends already. I'm also trying something new with the type of story. It is firmly grounded in SF, but this one will be a mystery. The working title is Requiem for Memory, but I'm not completely sold on it and it may change at some point.
