Buster Benson

Back in the day I used to do NaNoWriMo and in my need to record and analyze everything I created a popular NaNoWriMo Report Card that helped people track their progress on the long and fast road to 50,000 words in 30 days.

As soon as I started Infinite Jest with the Infinite Summer people (which was last night, by the way), I knew that I’d like to create a quick tool to see if I’m ahead or behind schedule.

Here’s what I came up with:

Here’s a link to my Infinite Summer “template” spreadsheet in case you want a version of it.

It’s a Google Doc Spreadsheet, so if you want to use it for whatever reason, please copy or export it first. Copying it is recommended, however, since I think I used one Google-only formula (DAYS360) to calculate the number of days left until the end of the Infinite Summer (whatever that means).

Reading 11.29 pages a day all of a sudden doesn’t seem that difficult.

Plus, I’m loving the book so far.