The Writing Desk
Deadline
pick a date
The manuscript
Every chapter is a page in the stack. Click one to open it.
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Set a word goal and a deadline to see your daily pace.
Writing sprint
25:00
No thinking. Just typing.
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Word count history

Your last 21 days. Gold means you wrote. Teal means you hit the goal.
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Chapters

Open a chapter to leave yourself a note about where you stopped. Check it off when it is done.
Drop a .txt, .md or .rtf chapter here and it counts the words for you.
Nothing is uploaded anywhere. It never leaves this computer.

Loose threads

Chapter 3 mentioned a locked drawer. Did anyone ever open it? Close every thread before you call it done.

Characters

Who they are, what they want, what they are hiding. Click any card to edit it.

The darlings drawer

Every line too good to keep and too good to lose. Cut it here instead of deleting it. Some of these become social posts later.

Research links

Everything you looked up at 1am, in one place.

Turn a chapter into posts

You never post the chapter. You post the question inside it. Answer these four and get a week of posts that give nothing away.

Caption bank

Everything you saved. Copy it the day you need it.

Editing stages

Draft done is not book done. Here is the road between them.
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Beta reader notes

One rule, and it saves books: if three readers flag the same thing, it is real. If one reader flags it, it is taste. Tag each note so the tool can count for you.

The launch runway

Put in your pub date. Everything else works itself backward from there. Change the date and the whole runway moves with it.
Pick a date and the plan builds itself.
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The pitch pipeline

Posting is not marketing. Pitching is. Podcasts, bookstagram, book clubs, bookstores, libraries, newsletters. Find them, pitch them, follow up. This tracks all of it.
Anything sitting on pitched for more than seven days gets a follow up flag. That flag is where most of the yeses actually come from.

ARC readers

Tap a status to move a reader along.
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Odds and ends

The loose tasks that do not sit on a date.
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The blurb builder

The back cover is the hardest 150 words you will write and the ones that actually sell the book. Answer five things and stop staring at a blank box.

Your bio, three lengths

Podcasts want 50 words. Bookstores want 100. Your website wants 250. Always asked at the last minute. Fill this in once.

The one sheet

Podcast hosts and event bookers ask for this, and almost nobody has one ready. Fill in three talking points and download it as a Word file you can send in thirty seconds.
It uses your title, blurb and bio from above, so fill those in first.

Your targets

Change these any time. Nothing is locked in.

Take your work with you

Everything downloads. Nothing is trapped in here. The Word files open straight in Word, Pages and Google Docs.

Where your work lives

This saves to this browser on this computer, automatically, every time you touch anything. No account, no login, no server. That also means one thing matters: download a backup once a week and put it somewhere safe. If the browser is cleared and there is no backup, the work is gone. The backup file restores everything exactly as it was.