Book Writing Software: 12 Programs Compared on Cost and Goals
Which book writing software is worth paying for? We compared 12 programs, from free to $900 over five years, on price, platforms …
Writing, in numbers
Word goals, writing routines and tools for people who write regularly. Every article works something out, names its sources and says where the advice stops applying.
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Writing Accountability Partner: How to Find and Keep One
A writing accountability partner is someone you report your progress to every week. Where to find one, what to agree on, and why …
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Writing Sprints: How Long to Sprint and How Many Words to Aim For
A writing sprint usually lasts 25 minutes. How to set a word goal from your own pace, what a study on fixed breaks found, and …
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Writing Widgets: Your Word Goal on the Home Screen
Can a home screen widget help you hit a word count goal? It can if it shows the one number you act on today, and if you log your …
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Writing Apps for iPhone: Nine Compared on Price and Goals
Which iPhone writing app suits a book or thesis? We compared nine, from free to $300 over three years, and only one turns a …
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Behind on Your Dissertation? How to Rework the Plan
Behind on your dissertation? Spread the missing words over the days left, because one catch-up day for 2,000 words would need …
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How Many Words a Day Does a Dissertation Need?
How many words a day does a dissertation need? A 12,000 word dissertation worked on twice a week from October to May needs about …
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Word Count by Genre: How Long Should Your Book Be?
How many words are in a novel, a novella or a short story? Genre word counts from two popular charts, the rules that actually …
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Words per Page: Why 275 and 475 Are Both Right
A 6 by 9 page holds 273 words or 453, depending on how it is set. Measured tables for four KDP trim sizes, and the arithmetic …
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Reading a Writing Heatmap: What the Colours Mean
A writing heatmap records exactly which days you wrote, but only roughly how much. How apps set the colour steps, and what the …
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Words, Hours or Pages? How to Choose What to Track
Should you track words, hours or pages? Count words while you draft, hours while you research and revise, and pages only when a …
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Build a Writing Habit: 30 Days of Measuring, Not Hoping
A worked month: 24 of 30 sessions, 635 minutes, 6,380 words. Those four figures give three numbers, and the three numbers give …
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Writing Streaks: When They Help and When They Hurt
A missed day costs almost nothing. Quitting after it costs everything. What the research says about writing streaks, and which …
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Standard Manuscript Page: How Many Words
A standard manuscript page holds 250 words by convention and 233 when you count real prose in the 25-by-60 frame. Here is where …
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How Many Words Is a Handwritten Page?
A handwritten page holds anywhere from 145 to 328 words depending on your hand and your ruling. Measure your own figure in ten …
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How to Track Writing Progress: 5 Methods Compared
Paper, bullet journal, spreadsheet, web service or app: what each costs, what it can analyse and where it breaks, with trial …
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Writing Goal Calculator: Deadline to Daily Target
Target length, due date, the days you actually write. The calculator returns words per writing day, counted from the real …
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How Many Words a Day Should You Write?
NaNoWriMo asked for 1,667 words a day. Its own final tally averaged 762. Here is the arithmetic for your project, including the …
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What a Writing Tracker Measures, and Who It Helps
Recording your progress raises goal attainment by d = 0.40 across 138 studies. The advice to write daily has far weaker evidence. …