Writing Plan

Under the assumption, that a dissertation page, double spaced, has about 250 words, and I can write about 3 pages a day (= 750 words), then I should be able to write 4,500 words (or 18 pages) a week (leaving one day for family, R&R, and slop).

If I can sustain this rate, then I should have the following weekly milestones [p = pages, w = words, w## = week, current date highlighted]:

• October 2014
• 22nd (w01):   0 p /      0 w /   0.0%
• 29th (w02):  18 p /  4,500 w /   5.6%
• November 2014
•  5th (w03):  36 p /  9,000 w /  11.1%
• 12th (w04):  54 p / 13,500 w /  16.7%
• 19th (w05):  72 p / 18,000 w /  22.2%
• 26th (w06):  90 p / 22,500 w /  27.8%
• December 2014
•  3rd (w07): 108 p / 27,000 w /  33.3%
• 10th (w08): 126 p / 31,500 w /  38.9%
• 17th (w09): 144 p / 36,000 w /  44.4%
• 24th (w10): 162 p / 40,500 w /  50.0%
• 31st (w11): 180 p / 45,000 w /  55.6%
• January 2015
•  7th (w12): 198 p / 49,500 w /  61.1%
• 14th (w13): 216 p / 54,000 w /  66.7%
• 21th (w14): 234 p / 58,500 w /  72.2%
• 28th (w15): 252 p / 63,000 w /  77.8%
• February 2015
•  4th (w16): 270 p / 67,500 w /  83.3%
• 11th (w17): 288 p / 72,000 w /  88.9%
• 18th (w18): 306 p / 76,500 w /  94.4%
• 25th (w19): 324 p / 81,000 w / 100.0%

This suggests that I should be able to turn in a first draft of about 325 pages of contents on Monday, March 3rd, 2015. I did tests with double spacing in LaTeX and checked my word count (using TeXcount), and as of today, November 12th, 2014, I am on target at 16.7% completed.