Writing Goals & Sessions
Track your writing progress and set achievable targets using misenous' integrated productivity tracking tools.
Setting Writing Goals
Writing Goals are long-term targets you set to motivate yourself. They serve as a benchmark but do not directly record your moment-to-moment typing.
- Daily Goals: Aim to hit a specific word count before midnight (e.g., 500 words/day).
- Weekly Goals: Set a target for the 7-day period (e.g., 3,500 words/week).
- Monthly Goals: Set a broader target for the calendar month (e.g., 15,000 words/month).
- Project Goals: The ultimate goal for your entire manuscript (e.g., 80,000 total words).
Global vs. Book Specific
You can set a goal specifically tied to one Book, or you can create a Global Goal that tracks all your writing across every project in your account combined!
Tracking Writing Sessions
While Goals set the target, Writing Sessions do the actual tracking. A session represents a block of time you spend actively working in a Draft.
When you start a session from the Dashboard or Book Overview, misenous begins a timer. More importantly, it silently monitors your Starting Word Count.
As you write in the Draft editor, the system automatically calculates exactly how many words you have added and how many you have deleted during that specific session. When you click End Session, those net words are saved to your session history and automatically applied as progress toward any active Writing Goals you have!
The Draft Observer
You don't have to manually update your book's total word count. As you write and save your drafts, our backend automatically tallies up the chapters and recalculates your book's total length in real-time.