Punctuation: Tune it. Spaces: Tune it. Use a character n-gram analyzer to rank the most used 2-5 character patterns. The idea is that you use this tool to compare densities, read entropy, and build something like a compact language fingerprint using character patterns. Character patterns are out there in plain sight, in products catalogs, in […]

Enter your plan (sessions per day, buffer, etc.) into this estimated finish date calculator to predict when you’ll be done based off pace, progress, weekdays, skipped days, and more. Recalculate whenever your plan shifts. When we’re starting a new book or working on revising our own manuscript, we intend to finish it, only for life […]

Decide how many chapters to read per week by planning your week, uneven chapter length, session load, catch up reserve, reading days and remaining chapters. The weeks seem shorter then yesterday; a dense textbook sits before you or a thick novel. Quiet panic seeps in, how much should I read each week? The number of […]

How long should a eulogy be? How many words does that require? What about pausing for breath? Or telling a story? Or how long will I actualy take to say all those words? You learn (usually the hard way) that standing up there with papers in hand, without time, grief expands time in weird ways. […]