Lore & LilacTool · Stage 3: Draft
Deadline calculator
Enter your target and deadline to see how many words each writing day needs — with rest days already taken out. Add the pace you can comfortably keep to see when you'd finish. Everything stays in your browser.
Your plan
744 words per writing day
- Words to go
- 90,000
- Writing days available
- 121 (131 minus 10 off)
- About per week
- 3,720 words
Estimates assume the same pace on every writing day. Real drafts speed up and slow down; recalculate whenever you like, and treat the numbers as a guide rather than a verdict.
Terms used here
- Word countThe number of words in a manuscript, used to judge whether a novel's length suits its genre and audience, and to track drafting progress.
- Discovery writingDrafting without a detailed plan and finding the story's shape through the act of writing it, sometimes called pantsing.
- RevisionThe process of re-seeing and reworking a draft, from structure, scene order and character arcs down to the sentences themselves.
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