# Thirty-day plan — realistic version

Fifty thousand words in thirty days is 1,667 a day if you never miss one. You will miss some. This plan assumes six writing days a week and two catch-up days, which is what actually happens.

| Week | Target by Sunday | Where the story should be | Rescue rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12,000 | We know who, where, and what's wrong | Behind by more than a day? Write the scene you want, not the next one. |
| 2 | 25,000 | The plan is working | Skip a scene you can't see; leave a line that says what it does. |
| 3 | 37,000 | The plan has stopped working | Write the worst moment now if you're stuck — you can move it later. |
| 4 | 50,000 | The last choice | If you're at 41,000 on day 30, you wrote a novel draft. The number was never the point. |

Daily log (word count, one line about the day, nothing else):
| Day | Words | One line |
|---|---|---|