Chapter 2 is Done and Dusted!

I'm excited to be making progress on actually posting this thing. This whole project has been very exciting. I'm not sure if the Mature rating will stick. I've always had a bad relationship with these online self-rating systems. I'd much prefer an "in progress" rating that was the functional equivalent of shrugging your shoulders and seeing where things go. As it stands, part of me wants to tone down the later chapters and re-concept the scope into something with less adult themes. I'm not going to have a ton of time to actually do that, with the contest deadline looming, but it's something I'm considering for the sake of the story's reach and appeal. This is a tale where adults have to make life or death decisions, sometimes on the behalf of others, and I haven't been exactly sure what kind of turns that road was going to take until very recently. We'll see what happens, but I've still got the bulk of the final chapter in front of me to write and that will likely decide things once and for all.

I also officially submitted the story into the Science Fiction Contest group today. It's by no means complete, and I haven't found an artist to commission for a proper cover, but at least it's there! Overall: I've got 2 Chapters posted, 3 Chapters to edit, and 1 Chapter left to write, so I think I'm in relatively good shape to finish this thing up by the deadline on the 6th. Fun times!