Semi-weekly progress report

I realized I didn't do this last week, so I can't call this a weekly progress report.  So let's just stick with semi-weekly, shall we?  Like the semi-annual post holiday greeting cards I sometimes manage to get out in February each year.  So yeah.  I'm hopeless.  But at least I recognize that.  It has to stand for something, right?

So where am I?

I'm revising.  Still.  I've managed to get a lot done in the last two days.  Eight or nine chapters.  I'm thrilled.  Not entirely happy with the results, especially chapter 36 where I think too much happens in too short a time, but I'm leaving it because I don't want things to drag.

My first draft was 42 chapters long, but I've moved and changed things as I revised, so I'm thinking I'm going to wind up with 44, maybe 45.  They're all relatively short - under 3K, and most of them between 1500 and 2K.

I've reached the point where I need to write a bunch of new stuff because I've decided to change, not the ending, but the lead up to the ending.  I think that's going to be most of a chapter.  Then I have a few more things I want to tweak and change to clarify the character arc.  But I think I'm definitely on track to finish this revision by the end of next week which was my deadline.

Then it's off to the betas.  I hope they are full of fantastic ideas to smooth out the funky bits.  I'm already seeing a huge improvement in the chapters my awesome critique partners have read.

How are you doing with your WIP?