#writetrack

Okay, so for those of you who haven’t heard of this fantastic site, listen up. It’s legit helped me with my writing so much.

WriteTrack is a sight that lets you set word goals for whatever amount of time you want, whether it be a day, a week, a month, or even a year, and then tells you how many words you need to write every day to reach your goal. Then you put in the number of words you write that day, even if it’s more or less, and it recalculates how many words you need to write to stay on track for the remaining days your challenge is going on.

So let’s say I want to write 30,000 words in the month of January (cause I tend to like monthly goals).

You hit the create new button, enter in the time frame, and then hit create

Once you do that you can click the challenge and see just how many words you need to write each day to hit your goal.

Then you guys click on the day you’re on and enter the words and it’ll do all the math for you. And, for those of you who aren’t really into the whole grid thing shown, above that there’s a progress bar that shows the total target, where you are currently, and where you should be, and if you look on the right of the screenshot there’s a button that says charts that will show you the same thing in chart form.

These are from my year-long challenge this year where I tried to write 400,000 words, which I’m obviously not going to finish, but that’s not the point. The point was to have a goal to work towards, so I had this going throughout the entire year, as well as more specific challenges like *write 20,000 on X story*. 

This site literally made me 100 times more productive cause seeing my goal and seeing how much I needed to write to reach it made me actually sit down and write more than I probably would have.

And, the best part, THE SITE IS COMPLETELY FREE

So I didn’t get aaaaalll that much posted last month, but i did almost meet both writing goals, so that’s something. Everything went a bit screwy around the middle of the month, so that was a thing that happened for certain, lol.

Anyway, going to try to tidy up the next chapter of Clouded Silver Wings this month (it’s half done already), stop being a procrastinator about Dragon Eclipse, and then probably add Lilacs ch2 into the work queue since I’ve got 2k already written that I can edit pretty smoothly into being ch2. If I expand the first scene the way I almost expect that I will and add a little bit at the end, that chapter will easily end up being about the same length as ch1.

Safe Inside

I would’ve had a nicer way of showing this off, but the feature’s currently down after the site moved, so:

Slowly but surely, I’m working on Damian and Cassandra’s part in Safe Inside. I didn’t have a solid plan in place for it (I’m more of a pantser than a planner, though I try to find a good balance), and the fic with Barbara (still unnamed as of now) added some new elements to the verse that I did not see coming and which’ll take me a bit to incorporate smoothly.

Yo!

Writeblrs!

Do you like knowing your word counts?

Do you like setting deadlines?

Do you like using estimated word counts to figure out how many words you’ll need to write in a given period of time, even when it’s NOT NaNoWriMo?

Do you want a program that will automatically adjust based on your progress on a given?

Then check out WriteTrack: http://writetrack.davidsgale.com. It’s a fantastic resource that lets you create “challenges” to meet your writing deadlines and adjust your plans when life gets in the way of your precious book! Miss a day, two days, because of your aunt’s cousin’s daughter’s friend’s marriage threw a wrench in your plan? You can just adjust it.

And the best part? It’s free! All you have to do is register and you can start making challenges right away and get your book written!

(Though on that note, I would highly encourage making a donation, since it’s such a fantastic resource. Just sayin’.)

I found a word-count tracker thanks to Writers’ Rumpus and input my current progress and word-count/end date goals. I’m already doing the 750words June Challenge, so using this as well will help me keep in view the progress I make each day and how far I have to go.