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Writing Stats: charts, milestones, forecast
Last updated September 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Want to know how much you actually write? The Writing Stats page has the full picture — charts, milestones, and a forecast.
How to open
Chart icon (📊 / "Stats" tooltip) in the left sidebar → opens Writing Stats.
Not under Account — it's a dedicated page in the writing studio.
Page sections
The page has three tabs. Overview carries Today, Overview, Writing Milestones and Book Progress Ranking. Habits carries the heatmap, the rhythm panel and the two charts below it. Authorship is the writing-provenance record — a separate topic.
Today + Overview
Two cards at the top:
- Today: +N words / Manuscript vs Reference split / vs yesterday / streak days
- Overview: All works or per-book / goal progress ring / Manuscript vs Reference ratio
Writing Heatmap (past 16 weeks)
GitHub-contribution-style grid — past 16 weeks, one cell per day, darkness = volume.
Toggle Total / Manuscript / Reference to see different views.
Writing Rhythm
Right side panel:
- Current streak (days)
- Average daily words
- Active days
30-Day Trend
Mid-page line chart — past 30 days daily output. Total / Stacked toggle for Manuscript+Reference stacking.
This Week vs Last Week
7-day bar chart comparing two weeks.
Writing Milestones
Each book is tracked against these milestones; the motivation card pops a celebration when you hit one:
| Milestone | Display name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 5K | Breaking Ground | Opening is solid |
| 20K | Novella Start | Mid-section turn |
| 50K | Novella Complete | A novella-length draft, finished |
| 100K | Novel Complete | Long-form territory |
The ladder has ten rungs in all. Alongside those four: 1K First Thousand, 10K Short Story, 200K Beyond the Novel, 300K Series Scale, 500K Prolific Author, and 1M One Million Words.
Book Progress Ranking
Below — all your books sorted by word count with progress-bar visual comparison.
Estimated Completion (forecast)
Once you pick a specific book in the page's book selector, Estimated Completion appears. It counts down to a fixed 100,000-word reference target (not the per-book Target Words you set in the Edit Work dialog), using your average words per active writing day over the past ~16 weeks:
At your current pace of 350 words per day, your work will be complete in 193 days (2026-11-23).
ETA is checked against your target date:
- Behind → nudge to accelerate
- Ahead → encouragement / suggest raising the goal
Reading signals
- Declining 4-week average → motivation slipping; consider rest or switching books
- Mostly empty heatmap → commitment too aggressive; dial it down
- Multiple weeks above goal → raise the bar
- ETA keeps drifting later → target too big, or pace too slow
Related
Open the app and do this with your own book. Free to start, no credit card.