Publishing timeline planner
Works backward from your launch date and gives every milestone a deadline, from the last page of the draft to the day the files go live.
The book
Drafting is planned at five writing days a week, not seven. Editors schedule the same way, because the
two days off are what make the five sustainable.
What you are producing
The schedule
Every date is a deadline, not a start. The calendar file drops each milestone into your diary as an
all day event on the day it falls due, and it opens in Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar alike.
Can you make the date
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Weeks of work
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Weeks available
Start byThe day the first milestone has to begin–
Earliest safe launchIf the work started today–
Slack in the planWhat is left for the week everything goes wrong–
Worth knowing
Tools will only take you so far
Send what you have. Even a half-written manuscript is enough for a reader to tell you what it needs.