📊Writing statistics

Track your writing, goals and your progress. See how you together with your collaborators are doing in a writing project.

How to track your progress when writing?

What should I track when writing my novel? Word count on its own doesn't tell you much. What matters is whether you're writing consistently, whether your current pace gets you to your deadline, and whether the story itself, its structure and its characters, is moving forward alongside the word count. A good tracking setup covers all three: output, pace, and structure.

What can you track in Fortelling?

Fortelling organizes tracking into four areas:

Writing progress and goals (total words, word targets, and progress graphs)
Team stats (output and consistency across every author on a project)
My writing (your personal pace, deadline, and chapter status)
Plotting (the number of story elements you have)

Each is covered below.

Track your writing progress and goals

The statistics tab shows graphs and info on your overall writing progress. You can set a daily goal and an overall goal for the entire book, and the app highlights the following trends:

You can filter by author and by book.

Consistency (30d) (the percentage of days in the last 30 with a logbook entry)
Filter the Progress section by author to see:
Rolling 7-day average (a smoothed view of the last week's output)
Rolling 30-day average (a smoothed view of the last month's output)
Logbook (every daily entry, with the date, words added, and words removed)
Most productive day (a weekly bar chart highlighting your best day)
Records (your best writing day, your best week ever, and your fastest 10k words)

Words to goal (how many words are left before you hit your target, with a progress bar and percentage)
Reading time and speaking time (how long the book takes to read or narrate at its current length)
Chapters (a breakdown of every chapter by status: not started yet, outlining, writing, first draft done, revised draft done, or finished)
Est. finish (your projected finish date at your current pace)
Deadline (the finish date you set, with days remaining)
Pace vs. needed (your actual daily pace against the pace your deadline requires, marked ahead or behind)
Momentum (this week's words against last week's, broken down by day over the past 5 weeks)

🎯Goals & Logbook

From your statistics page, you can now share your progress with others!

Tap the share icon at the top of the Statistics page to turn a stat into a card for you to share with your audience or friends! Write so much that you motivate others to also start writing.

Stats snapshots (pick a specific stat to turn into a card, such as word count, consistency, or your growth curve)
Daily recap (a card built from today's writing, showing words written today)

With Fortelling Pro, you will also have the benefit of branding your cards.

Track the number of story elements in "Plotting"

Which collections show up here depends on what you've set up for that project. Worldbuilding, characters, and the timeline are there by default; anything else, like a magic system or a set of biological powers, is a collection you've created yourself.