An Impossible Project

  Never let it be said that I don't love a challenge.  I'm the kind of person who thrives on proving others wrong.  The kind of person who when someone says never cut your hair wants to chop it all off.  Yep, that's me.  And I suppose I'm proving that again this week.
  I'm going to attempt to do what seems like it's impossible.  I'm trying to finish my manuscript re-write by Saturday night.  I know it sounds crazy, but if I can manage it then I might be able to enter the Seekerville contest and maybe even get my manuscript requested by an agent!  It's a long shot, but my plan was to be done the manuscript by mid-February at the absolute latest anyway, so why not go for it?  If I manage to get my query letter (basically a synopsis of my book in letter form) sent off to this agent, the worst she could say is she isn't interested.  And if by some miracle she wants to see the manuscript, at least her rejection will probably be kinder than others.
  I must say, I am ultimately expecting rejection.  It's a part of the writing business, and it happens to everyone.  I just want to finally be able to jump into this life that I want for myself as a writer and stop being afraid that I'm not good enough.
  So for the next four days, I am going to do my best to eat, sleep and breathe this story.  I'm going to wrestle through bouts of indecision and doubts about changes being made, and keep moving forward.  I'm going to try to write (or fix) at least eleven chapters, for a total of probably 40,000 words, and still try to leave myself time to go back and edit again if need be.
  If I fail and don't meet this deadline, then I guess it wasn't meant to be.  I'll live and wait for the next contest to come along.  But there's still four days I can devote to trying to accomplish this task, and for once I don't want to take the easy way out.  Prayers please for my stubborn nature to work in my favour for once.  And some encouraging words perhaps?  Lord knows I might need them over the next several days.
<3 Kayla