blog challenge

so just as my followers leap to a nice round 20, i abandon blogging for almost a whole week.
to atone, i am issuing myself a challenge: 1 blog every day this week (monday through friday).
slacking in your own blog? join me in the challenge! 5 blogs. you can do it people!

now... to ensure that i will not use this self-imposed daily blogging requirement as an excuse to put off writing, i am simultaneously issuing myself an even more intense challenge: finish my revisions by monday. (that's one week to wrap this sucker up and hit the send button to Agent Almost.)

here are my daily goals, and i'll be updating whether I achieved them here on the blog, so you can berate me if i am slacking:

tonight - set writing goals (done! - ok, i know i'm cheating, but i just got back from vaca and it's 9:45 and i'm tiiiiiiiiired.)
tuesday - do beta revisions of chapters 23-26, cleanup ending outline and begin the big rewrite. (this will be difficult as LOST is on tomorrow, but i'll try!)
wednesday - work on ending.
thursday - attempt to reach THE END. email ending to beta.
friday - print and do hard-copy second-pass revisions. (or, more accurately, third pass as i've been doing beta revisions of my revisions as i go.)

that should leave the whole weekend to do final cleanup and incorporate feedback (lucky me for my super fast beta!)
i'll let you know monday how it goes.

hmm. looking back on this list, i realize just how lofty these goals are. some may think i'm setting myself up to fail, but i say "aim high."

now, i'm off to write "Blog" on all of my daily to-do lists, or else i will promptly forget i wrote this.


...oh, p.s. - hitting 20 followers on the blog made me think it's about time to set up another milestone celebration. maybe a video blog when we hit 25 followers? (can someone explain to me how to do that, by the way? i know nothing about vlogging.)