50,000 words. 30 days. Where should you be today — and what pace gets you to the finish line from wherever you actually are?
NaNoWriMo pace is 1,667 words every day — 50,000 words in 30 days. Miss a day and the pace rises; the calculator above turns whatever is left into your new daily number.
End-of-day targets at the classic 1,667/day pace.
| Day | Par | Day | Par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,667 | 16 | 26,667 |
| 5 | 8,333 | 20 | 33,333 |
| 10 | 16,667 | 25 | 41,667 |
| 15 | 25,000 | 30 | 50,000 |
Almost nobody holds 1,667 every single day — November has birthdays, deadlines and at least one evening when the couch wins. The mistake is trying to repay the whole debt in one heroic session: it burns the energy you need for tomorrow. Recalculate instead. The calculator above does the only math that matters: words left ÷ days left. A 5,000-word deficit on day 15 sounds scary but adds only ~330 words to each remaining day.
Aiming at a different target than 50k — a novella, or a NaNo-rebel 80k? Change the target field, the math follows. For what happens after November (a 50k draft is a wonderful, unfinished thing), see how long novels actually are and plan the rest with the writing time calculator.
1,667 every day. Skip days and the pace climbs — five missed days pushes it to 2,000 per remaining day.
Recalculate, don't binge: words left ÷ days left is your new pace. Spreading the deficit keeps it survivable.
About 9 weekend days in November → ~5,600 words per writing day. Possible, brutal. A small weekday floor plus big weekends is far more realistic.
~200 manuscript pages or ~167 paperback pages — see the words-to-pages converter.
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