platnumkid Posted March 7, 2023 Posted March 7, 2023 In Brandon's most recent weekly update vid (on location from a beach in Hawaii), the man himself shared a spreadsheet with his writing log and left it to us to "try to figure out what the rest of these numbers are". Well challenge accepted! My guesses at what the columns of numbers are below: Column A: Date Column B: Word count for that days writing (Dark grey for Weekends, Light grey for Thursdays) Column C: Running monthly word count total Column D: Total SA5 word count to date Column E: Planned writing days remaining in the current month (appears to include the current date which leads to calculation issues) Column F: Monthly target word count remaining Column G: Word count required on planned writing days to achieve monthly target Column H: Notes (it can be seen that on Feb 15th Brandon worked on "Edit Sunlit Man") The most interesting result from this exercise is that we can see that for the months of February and March Brandon's target is 30k words. With 300k words left to go a 30k/month goal extrapolates out to a end of year completion of the first draft, which I believe is right on the current schedule! This is even without resorting to any kind of process optimization funny business like giving some chapters to editors to start reading before the entire first draft is complete. 2
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