Word Count Daily Goal

Many authors like to keep a streak of a minimum number of words written per day. Whether this is your year-long motivator or your NaNoWriMo target, Fablehenge can help you track your daily goal.

Fablehenge tracks both your actual daily words written, and the word count goals you set for yourself. You'll see these displayed together in the Daily Word Counts chart on your dashboard. The purple area shows your daily writing activity; the green line shows the daily goal (in this case, 200 words). You can see at a glance how much you've been writing recently, and how that compares to your goal.

To adjust your daily goal, visit the Profile & Settings page by clicking the settings button in the left sidebar:

The setting of interest right now is Target Word Count Per Day, which I have made very low here for illustrative purposes:

The setting automatically saves. Now visit the write page for one of your books. Remember the word counter we discussed in The Manuscript? This counter becomes supercharged if you have set a daily goal. I haven't written anything on Becky's story today, so it is currently quite boring:

However, if I type a few words into the scene editor, the total changes colour to indicate that I haven't yet met my daily goal (which we set to 10 on the settings page):

If I flesh out the story just a little more, however, the goal turns green:

The counter text turns green as soon as today's word count (in this case, 22) is greater than or equal to the daily goal I set (10).

Caveats

• Daily word counts are calculated based on scene contents, so any words you type for world building (summaries, tag descriptions, and secret scenes) don't count toward it.
• Daily word counts are not scoped to individual books, so if you write one scene in one book and another scene in a different book, your daily count for that day will include the count for both scenes.
• Daily word count can go negative if you delete words or scenes that were written on previous days.