I know that some of you out there are as OCD as me when it comes to trying to figure out how far along you are in National Novel Writing Month so I decided to share my own little personal calculator.

I set it up as an .xls file so it will work in Open Office, Microsoft Excel or Google Docs, depending on what you use.

It is very simple. All you do it type in your word count each day and then it calculates your running total, percentage done, whether you are on track to hit 50,000 words at the end of the month etc. It’s a pretty useful little tool that is very simple to use and gives you a lot more info than the little widgets and counters around. It’s also a great way to motivate yourself to stay on track.

If you want to add, share or customize this, please feel free to! I only ask one favor. Please keep my url on the spreasheet as credit so that I at least get some traffic for my work. Or just link to this page!

If you find this tool useful, thanks are appreciated in the comments below. Thanks and happy NaNo-ing!

(Want to be my writing buddy? You can friend me on the NaNo site here. Just make sure that you are logged in before you click.)