I think IMMERSION started with a dream, but for the life of me, I can't really remember much of the dream. This is because, as soon as I woke up, I started adding bits and pieces to the dream, and taking parts away, until I had made up the whole story and just about nothing of the dream was left. 

I recall the dream had something to do with a man who was being hunted by a shadowy group that wanted him to do something for them, but I don't remember what, and he ended up in a very dark place in a cage (I think), in which his family couldn't get to him. 

The characters came clearly in the dream: a young woman with a physical disability, and a little boy with an irrepressible spirit and a penchant for generating more questions than answers. 

Recently, I've been working very hard on my revision of my novel, entitled The Memory. 

I originally wrote The Memory in 2008, when I was 19. The first draft was just over 50,000 words, which, by today's standards, doesn't even make it a novel (most publishers consider novels to be at least 60,000 words). In February of this year, I decided it was time to polish The Memory for publication. It only needed some minor tweaking, nothing major, just a little touch-up here and there...

I really should have known better. Since when has my perfectionist nature not hijacked my plans?

And thus began the major overhaul of my story.

Revision Progress: 
78805 words out of estimated 82,000 words