What strategy or tools do you use to keep track of your long-term and short-term writing goals? 📖

When writing the first draft of my novel, I had a word count goal in my head (2k words/day) but now as I edit I find it harder to organize and track tasks and milestones. Would love to hear what works for others :)

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I started w/ 500 words/day and worked my way to 2k. It was quite challenging but a lot of fun to write so much when I was just trying to get my first draft on paper. I like your idea of really focusing on one chapter/day now that I’m refining it :) Thank you!

Whoa! 2k a day is a loooot. I assume you did a plenty of outlining/planning before shooting for 2k days?

If you’re editing, and need more structure, perhaps you could sit down with the goal to edit/refine one scene a day? Or depending on the your works’ structure, one chapter a day, etc. GL!

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That’s helpful to hear! I think setting smaller more focused goals per day will be a good strategy for me at this point :)

On the word count - I've lowered it to 250 / day for my own writing projects. It's more attainable, and so small I usually blitz past it and get to the thousands anyway.

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It’s my first novel :) It’s a contemporary fiction story about friends on a roadtrip across the US 🏔️

Whats your novel about ? Is it your first ?

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Thank you for sharing - helpful to hear how you outline both world building and plot :)

For world building purposes you can maintain a dedicated wiki and iterate on all kinds of characteristics, ideas and how basically all of it is connected. Can then track intentions and goals inside the story and its progression and organise a Kanban kind of board for your working packages. And then, one day at a time.