Understanding the Writer's Report Card

Understanding your Report Card

The Report Card is your writing dashboard, located in the stats view. It turns two things into clear numbers: your writing activity (how much, how fast, how consistently you write) and your
manuscript itself (how your prose compares to published fiction). This guide explains every item on it.

Open the Report Card from your project's navigation.

Scope selector. At the top you can switch what the whole page measures:

• This Project - just the book you're in
• This Series - every book in the current series
• All Projects - your entire body of workToday at a glanceThe cards across the top show today's writing:
• Words Written - Gross words you added today. The small line shows how many sessions you wrote in.
• Net Words - Words added minus words deleted. This can be negative on a heavy revision day, and that is perfectly normal.
• Session Time - Total time you spent writing today, with your average per session.
• Writing Speed - Your average words per minute across sessions, with your peak speed.
• Streak - How many days in a row you have written, with your best streak to date.Your goalsIf you have set a goal, this shows your progress toward a daily word target and/or a manuscript word target with a deadline. It also calculates an adaptive daily
  target: the pace you need from here to hit your manuscript goal by your deadline. No goals yet? There is a button to set them.Your writing habits
• Daily Words - A bar per day showing how much you wrote. Toggle the range between 30d, 90d, and All.
• Writing Hours - A 24-hour chart of when you write most, and it calls out your peak hour range. Useful for learning your most productive time of day.
• Calendar Heatmap - A grid where each square is a day, shaded by how much you wrote (similar to a contribution graph). Hover any square for the date and word count.
  This is the clearest picture of your consistency.Your manuscript
• Chapter Breakdown - A bar per chapter showing its word count. Handy for spotting chapters that run unusually long or short next to the rest.All-time statsA running tally across the selected scope:
• Total Words - Every word you have written.
• Total Sessions - Number of writing sessions recorded.
• Total Time - Cumulative time spent writing.
• Avg Daily - Your average words per day.
• Best Day - Your single highest word-count day.
• Days Writing - How many days you have written in total.
• Projects - How many projects you have.
• Best Streak - Your longest run of consecutive writing days.Benchmarks vs. Published FictionThis card compares your actual prose against typical ranges from published books, broken down by genre. Pick your genre from the dropdown (General Fiction, Literary
  Fiction, Thriller, Romance, Young Adult, or Sci-Fi / Fantasy). You need at least about 100 words written for it to appear.How to read it. Each row shows your value, a bar, and a percentile like "62nd." The percentile is where your manuscript sits next to published books in that genre:
  roughly, the low end of the published range is the 25th percentile, the median is the 50th, and the high end is the 75th. The colors track that: green at the 75th and
  up, blue at the 50th and up, amber at the 25th and up, and gray below.One important caveat: these are comparisons, not grades. Genres vary widely and your voice is your own, so treat them as a mirror, not a rulebook.The six metrics:
• Vocabulary Richness - The share of unique words relative to your total word count. Higher means more varied word choice. Shown as a percentage.
• Sentence Variety - How much your sentence lengths vary. A mix of short and long sentences gives prose its rhythm, so a moderate amount of variety tends to score
  best rather than simply "more is always better."
• Dialogue Balance - The percentage of your text that is dialogue (words inside quotation marks). Shows whether your book leans toward scenes and dialogue or toward
  narration.
• Sentence Length - Your average number of words per sentence.
• Adverb Usage - Adverbs per 10,000 words. This is the one item where lower is better: fewer adverbs usually means tighter prose, so using fewer than most published
  books earns a higher percentile.
• Chapter Length - Your average words per chapter.Sharing your progressYou can turn your Report Card into a shareable image to celebrate a milestone or a strong writing day. Look for the share option on the Report Card.Need a hand?If a number looks off or something is not loading, reach out through the support icon in the bottom right corner of the app. We are glad to help.

Updated on: 19/06/2026