Writing goals vary from writer to writer, and what one person finds helpful might not help the other. However, I’ve found it helpful in my writing to set daily word counts goals. I do even better when I have a visual for those goals, typically a graph of some sort.

In the past, I used a different platform with a visual wordcount graph. Several months ago though, I discovered WriteTrack and have enjoyed using it.

Similar to other programs, WriteTrack has you plug in your estimated word count goal and your time frame for working on your project. Unlike other systems though, WriteTrack allows you to assign different “weights” to each day, how much you’ll be able to write one day compared to another. It then divvies up the daily word counts off of those weights, rather than a “flat rate” each day.

Due to other commitments, I can’t write Monday and Wednesday, and I take Sundays off. Since I gave those days a weight of zero, WriteTrack doesn’t expect me to write those days and therefore don’t calculate my needed daily wordcount for off of those days.

WriteTrack also provided a spreadsheet of your wordcounts stats, as well as a visual bar graph at the top of your project page.

If you think using something like WriteTrack might help you, I’d check it out! It’s free to use.

Do write better with or without daily goals?