WordKeeperAlpha: Write Without NaNoWriMo [NaNoWriMo Prep]

Has anyone heard of WordKeeperAlpha? I may be the last to hop on this train, but I just recently heard of it thanks to Skye Hegyes on her blog. (Go check out her blog if you don’t follow her already. She’s a great person and a wonderful writer.)

I’ve always wanted to add those “progress bars” to my blog. I thought it’d be great to hold myself accountable for my projects. Also, seeing the progress go up is really satisfying and motivating. It’s one of the reasons I love NaNoWriMo so much.

But then I was reading Skye’s blog post one day and she mentioned WordKeeperAlpha. I looked it up and it’s really cool.

It’s basically what the title suggests. You keep track of your word goal through that website.

It tracks your writing history from the time you officially start writing on there. You can add projects and goals and a start and an end date for them. In a way, it’s similar to how you’d keep track of your NaNo novel. The difference is that you can keep track of multiple projects at once and it’s all year round.

I think I’m going to get great use out of this because, as I said earlier, I like seeing my progress and that motivates me to keep going.

My only complaint is that it tracks words only. I would love it if it had an editing system or even an outlining system. I set up my NaNo project for November, but I plan on outlining it in October. I try to outline a couple of chapters a day. I’d love to set a 3-chapter a day goal, but I can only count the words. I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to track that just yet.

Still, I think this will be a great website to keep track of my writing projects in and out of NaNoWriMo. I always miss the charts and updating my word count whenever I write outside of April, July, or November.

So, I think this is definitely a site I will be using to track my progress in and out of NaNo.

Do you use WordKeeperAlpha? Do you think you’ll check it out and use it now that you know about it? Let me know in the comments below and we’ll chat!