NaNoWriMo Report Cards and Word Count Meters

Dragonchilde, please move this to Tech if it belongs there. Really wasn't sure where to put it. Here is a link to a spreadsheet for keeping track of your NaNoWriMo progress. The credit is not mine, not sure where I found it last year, but I updated it for 2011. It is a spreadsheet that tracks many, many things for your month long journey.

NaNoWriMo Report Card

Thanks that's a great way of keeping track - I've been trying to set up a spreadsheet so I can see a graph but maybe I'm thick - I just can't figure it out. This is another way of keeping track.

I've been trying to do the same but gave up after I realized how awful Excel is on a Mac. I used to use a version that was on Windows. Has anyone tried Countr? http://countr.boxfirepress.com It's fairly new and invite only so far.

I made my own as well.
Screen shot
Download link

It's a simplify chat. You only need to enter in your current word count and it fills in the rest. If you have a different total word count goal, different start date, or different length of time you're writing (up to 375 days), you can change those values on the right and the chat will correct itself. It also highlights what day you're on and there's a line chart of your progress on sheet #2. Oh, and the "ideal goal" thing is yesterday's word count + your daily goal. If you get behind in anything, text will turn red. You'll understand once you start using it.

Oh, and all the columns on the first sheet that you shouldn't be changing are protected, but if you need to unprotect them for any reason, the password is "nanowrimo". (It says that on the excel chart)

My report card is here
Sorry, Excel only but simle to use & year round.

I found an amazing one last year that I really like. If I can find where I got it from, I'll share the link.

Brilliant! I found a NaNo calendar on deviantART but this is a much better thing to use. Nice job!

I've never been very good with making these kinds of spreadsheets and so to find one like this is awesome. I'm definitely using this for NaNo this year

This is fab! Thanks for sharing.

I edited one of the ones floating around a few years ago, adding a bunch of buttons and such as I learned more in Excel. It's only compatible with 2003, though...
http://dft.ba/-ShariPreview
http://dft.ba/-ShariNaNoTrack

Wow, I really like this idea! I'm totally going to either make one or find one online when I get home.

Here's another one! I just posed an updated version of the one I made last year. It comes in different colours and so on, and looks like this:



You can download it from this page.

I remember this one website that I was using last year, where you put in your userid and it tracked your progress? Does anyone know what that was called? I can't recall, but I really liked it...

All my junk is here (including that report card from 2010 :))

http://writingblog.truckpoetry.net/search/label/Author%20Resources

Includes:
NaNoWriMo Report Card
Character Profile Worksheet
Write By Numbers Worksheet
Character Creator
Novel Mind Map
and some other stuff.

apparently the link didn't link: Trying again.

http://writingblog.truckpoetry.net/search/label/Author%20Resources

There was this simple chart to print out somewhere in one of the previous years, where you had the days labeled on a horizontal axis and the word count on the vertical one, with a green line running diagonally through it, showing on which word count you should ideally be on that day. You could mark your word count each day with a pen and instantly have a graphic overview of how you were doing, if you were behind or ahead and by how much. I liked that it was really simple yet giving me all the relevant information on just a glance. Anyone remembering it? I want to print it out this year again if I can find the original file…

I still use the old Zotoku one (it works, it's simple, and I don't need any extra planning tools I'll never use), and I usually have a word count progress wallpaper.

I edited one of the ones floating around a few years ago, adding a bunch of buttons and such as I learned more in Excel. It's only compatible with 2003, though...
http://dft.ba/-ShariPreview
http://dft.ba/-ShariNaNoTrack
by Sheri13

This is my favorite - hands down!

I like the first one posted best. Thanks so much!

Hi all,

I just wanted to let you know that Critique Circle has a NaNoWriMo wordcount meter for you just like last year.
You don't need to sign up or anything, just enter your nanowrimo username into the wizard and copy it into your blog.


Get it here!

Enjoy! :-)