Tell Dream. Write. Pub. the word count of your manuscript and when it's due, and it works out how much you need to write every single day — then keeps working it out as you go.
Try it with your own book
Your book, your plan. The app can run the calculation every morning, so a slow week adjusts the days ahead instead of derailing your whole plan, or keep your word count fixed. You decide.
Why it helps
It's a number big enough to make you dread starting. What you need is the other number, the one that says today all you have to do is write twelve hundred words, and twelve hundred words is two sprints, and two sprints is fifty minutes you can find somewhere in your day.
Most of us do that math once on the back of an envelope, then fly by the seat of our pants. Dream. Write. Pub. does it properly, and does it again whenever you need it, so you always know where you stand rather than suspecting.
Set your goals YOUR way. You have three options for your daily word counts: Recalculate only if I fall behind. Recalculate every day, up or down. Never recalculate.
Instead of an arbitrary word count goal, your day arrives as two sprints and about fifty minutes, which is something you can picture and fit between the school run and dinner. It is much harder to put off a thing you can see the shape of.
Read the count off your manuscript, type it in, and the app works out what the sprint was worth. There is no second number to keep track of and no mental math between sprints.
Set the length, start it, and write until it sounds. When the sprint ends the cursor is already waiting in the next box for your new total.
Track several manuscripts side by side, each with its own deadline and its own pace, and see what you've written across all of them.
The app notices when you finish a day, pass a milestone, or do more than you expected of yourself, and it says so. If you would rather it didn't, there is a switch for that too.
One less thing
An author’s week is cover briefs and newsletter drafts and ARC readers and ads that need watching and an editor who needs booking three months out. All of it is real work and all of it matters, but none of it matters at all if the manuscript isn't finished.
This is a tool for holding that one job so it stops taking up room in your head. You open it, you see where you stand, and you get on with running the rest of your business knowing the writing is on track.
What it won' do
There are no streaks to break. A day off is a day off, and nothing resets or greys out to punish you for taking a Sunday with your family.
It won't call you behind before you've started. Where you stand appears once you've written something, not while you're still making the coffee and wondering whether today will go well.
It's not somewhere to write. Your manuscript stays in Word or Scrivener or wherever it already lives. This holds the numbers and keeps out of the way of the actual work.
Your words are never held hostage. If a subscription lapses you keep everything — history, statistics, the lot, and you can still export it. You simply stop adding new days until you come back.
What it will cost
Write for two whole weeks before you decide if this app for you. Our goal here is to streamline the most important part of your business. Use it. Play with it. There is no commitment--no credit card needed--for fourteen days.
Monthly
$8
per month
Cancel whenever.
Annual
$79
per year
About two months free against the monthly price.
Founding · first 100
$49
per year, for as long as you stay
The first hundred annual subscribers keep this rate for life, even when the price rises later.
Not open yet
We launch this September. A small group of authors are using it while the last pieces are finished. Leave your email and you'll hear the day it goes live, while the founding member slots are still to be had.
One email when it opens. Nothing else, and you can leave at any time.