Calculations

I want to finish a book this year. Let's say, that it's just the first draft. Now then, I have 5 months left. A book is anywhere from 80000-120000 words. The first draft may be lesser or more, but lets say on average that it is about 100000 words long.

So, one assumed constant in the equation is 100000 words.

I may not be able to write for a couple of weeks to three weeks. Let's fix that to three weeks. So I have exactly (31+30+31+30+31-21)=132 days left

So per day of the remaining days, I will have to write 100000/132 = 758 words.

My daily target is usually 1000 words, so this is still doable. Yup, boys, we are gonna have out book this year. We might even be able to move to a second or even a third draft, if we kept at it!