Plan Draft Days From Act Word Budgets
A total word target hides which act is actually behind. Subtract what is drafted, divide the remainder by a realistic daily word count, and see how many writing days each section truly needs.
1 · manuscript act | target words | words drafted
FIRST-LOAD
Input is processed locally and a draft is saved automatically in this browser profile when storage is available. Reset to sample clears that draft; Pro history has its own clear button. A state link encodes your inputs in its URL: share only non-sensitive rows. Browser history, clipboard and anyone receiving the link may retain it. Optional AI use below leaves this device; it is not required.
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the manuscript pace docket: your manuscript act | target words | words drafted stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Perspective: Before: A daily count you hit once is not a pace; use a median over the last fortnight of writing. After: the manuscript pace docket shows the working beside each named row so the reader can change the assumption and inspect the consequence.
2 · Read the manuscript pace docket
Pace arithmetic on word counts and a daily rate you supply. Not a publication schedule, contract promise or editorial assessment; confirm deadlines and deliverable definitions with your editor, agent or publisher before committing to dates.
Paid layer: manuscript pace docket print and history
one-time step · the free reading above stays complete
Free tier
- one complete manuscript pace docket run in the app
- three samples plus unlimited article-demo runs
- unwatermarked result text and an explicit, user-triggered state link
What $4 one-time adds
- print the manuscript pace docket with its row workings
- CSV of draft days and row explanations
- last five reading summaries saved in this browser profile
$4 once for repeated filing of the manuscript pace docket, not for a better answer. Illustrative time basis: avoiding one five-minute manual reformat per saved reading; no market-price or guaranteed-savings claim.
Local history (this device)
- No saved runs yet — your first run files here.
Checkout is unavailable until a payment link is configured. The optional unlock is browser-local, profile-scoped and best-effort, not server-verified access. Clearing browser data can remove it; there is no account or cross-device recovery.
Boundary and sources
Pace arithmetic on word counts and a daily rate you supply. Not a publication schedule, contract promise or editorial assessment; confirm deadlines and deliverable definitions with your editor, agent or publisher before committing to dates.
- Method: Count words in a file, not words in your head. Fourteen thousand words of a twenty-thousand-word act leaves six thousand to write.
- All sample records are invented examples. The app does not fetch measurements, policies, files or personal records.
- Google’s official pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, lists free-tier access including AI Studio. Optional formatting only; limits and availability can change. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Never paste private records there.
Mechanism: competence-autonomy-loop
Optional AI formatting, not calculation
For this manuscript pace docket, use the free AI Studio interface only if available to you, with no paid API key. Manual entry completes the same workflow for free. Supply only fictional or non-sensitive notes. Review its output against the source; never paste unresolved questions into the numeric rows.
Format my non-sensitive notes for a manuscript pace docket. Return plain rows only: manuscript act | target words | words drafted. Preserve supplied quantities exactly. Do not guess missing values; list questions separately. Do not calculate or add advice. I will check every row before pasting into the local tool.
Accepted schema: manuscript act | target words | words drafted. No AI response is executed as code.