Introduction

Writer's Trail was inspired by NaNoWriMo. Their proposal is to make a worldwide online event where people write 50,000 words of a novel in November. And they display a nice chart that shows your progress through the month.

I wanted to have something like that not only in November, but whenever I wanted and with any amount of words I intended to reach. And there I started to think about a software to do that.

After searching a lot in the internet, I couldn't find a single tool to do what I wanted. There are some Excel worksheets, yes, but that wasn't my kind of thing. I wanted something with a real database. So I decided to make my own.

There a few trials before I actually made it. Tried with PHP first, which is the language I know better. However, it is too slow for this tool. That's when I moved to Node.js. Since then, it was a rapid development over a little more than a month until I released the first closed beta.

And now I'm aiming to make it always better. For now on my own, but soon will release the code and ask for help of other people.

I really wish you like my work. And thanks in advance for every feedback.