Critters

I finally signed up for the online writer's workshop Critters. Everyone at the Fantasy Matters conference recommended it, and some of the authors, like Jim C. Hines, post their work there for critique.

Critters is for Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror writing, and it's free. You can post your stories for critique as long as you write at least one review of someone else's work each week. The downside is the queue runs about a month out, but you can move to the top by writing the most qualifying critiques in a week- by which "qualifying" means the critique is at least 300 words and turned in on Tuesday rather than Wednesday. If I want something reviewed before the Clarion deadline, which I do, I'll have to move to the top.

Tomorrow I start the Advanced Fiction Writing class at the University of Wi-Madison. It should be a good comparison to Critters-- academia vs. genre specific workshops.

As for the novel, I started the prologue. I'll post a preview here soon.