By the way, I forgot to mention in my earlier post that although you can't start a thread in Critiques yet, there's nothing to stop you helping out other members by offering comments on their threads there. And since Chrons thrives on reciprocity, if you do help others, you're more likely to receive help yourself in due course, so it's win-win!
In the meantime, although you can't post extracts of your work other than in Critiques, it is open to you at any time to discuss the ideas behind your work here in Writing Discussion if you were wanting advice or general help on the issues. Though, again, that's only available if the work itself is unpublished.
(If you're wondering why I'm stressing the "unpublished" point, it's because we don't allow any self-promotion by members until they achieve at least 100 counted posts, and discussing a published or about-to-be-published work's ideas or quoting passages/posting extracts from it is seen as self-promotion and therefore frowned upon, as is, indeed, simply referring to the work by name.)