Reverse NaNoWriMo Goal Tracker

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For NaNoWriMo, I think it would be great to be able to track the reverse NaNo goals. Instead of 1667 words a day, reverse NaNo starts with 3,346 words on the first day and slowly goes down until you only have one word left on the last day. It would be awesome if there's an option to select either traditional NaNoWriMo word count, or Reverse NaNoWriMo.

Under consideration Goals Suggested by: Xaitric (15 Oct, '18) • Upvoted: 22 Oct, '22 • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

17 Oct, '18
Jacob from Dabble Admin
Could you explain this more? The goal is an even split of how many words each day to reach the goal, therefore there is no reverse because if you write e.g. 1667 every day you'll reach the goal.

Dabble does show the "Remaining" word count in the section on the right.

Also, if you want to increase your count at the beginning of NaNoWriMo to help you get ahead, you can select days off, such as the last week of NaNoWriMo. Then unselect them when you get closer.
17 Oct, '18
Xaitric
Reverse NaNo doesn't split the days equally with word count like normal NaNo does. It's broken down as follows:

Day 1: 3346 words
Day 2: 3216
Day 3: 3101
Day 4: 2986
Day 5: 2872
Day 6: 2757
Day: 7: 2642

(The complete list of the word count can be found here: https://www.wikiwrimo.org/wiki/Reverse_NaNo)

It would be nice to be able to track this, either via a goal tracker or even an optional small calendar under the regular goal tracker.
20 Oct, '18
Jacob from Dabble Admin
That looks cool. You could actually do something like this manually by taking 1/2 the month off in the days off calendar, day 15-30. Then each day unmark one day off.

e.g. On the 1st, have 15-30 off. Then on the 2nd, unmark 15 so you have 16-30 off. Then on the 3rd, unmark day 16 off so the remaining days off are 17-30. Continue until the last.