Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.

By Sunday you should be able to say: “FermLit has a DOI and a card, and I can pitch Paper 1 in three sentences with three numbers." --- # ACT IV · Becoming an author (weeks 14-20) > Act IV story. For 25 years you wrote status reports read by people who already trusted you. Now you write for strangers who are paid to doubt you. It is the difference between an internal memo and a listed company's audited annual report: every number footnoted, every method disclosed, every risk stated, signed by an auditor. Paper 1 is your first annual report (bioRxiv, week 16). Paper 2 is the second, with an outside signature (the arXiv endorser, week 20). By the end of the act you are no longer "an engineer learning biology"; you are an author”