🚧 Draft — not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional — someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.

One-pager & word tracker

The two things that get a first novel finished: a premise you can hold in one glance, and a word count you can't argue with. Everything else is downstream of these.

The one-pager (revise freely, never delete)

• Premise (one sentence): _(a __ who wants __ but _)
• Protagonist: who they are, and what they want badly enough to carry a book.
• The obstacle: what stands in the way — the engine of every scene.
• Roughly how it ends: a direction, not a promise. You're allowed to be wrong.
• Why me, why this story: the reason to still be writing it at chapter twenty.

The rule

Draft all the way to The End before revising anything. A finished rough draft can be fixed; a perfect chapter one is a trap. Structure gets revised first, sentences last — and only after "The End."

Word tracker

• Daily target: _____ words (small and non-negotiable — 300 beats a heroic 3,000 once a month)
• Draft-done target: _____ words