Fifteen minutes, on the last day of a round or the day after. It gives the round a proper end, and it writes the handoff the next round starts from. Duplicate this page for each round, or answer straight into the round's Handoff field.

Done when the round is marked Done, its Handoff field is filled in and the next round has a start date or a dated note saying when you will decide.


  1. The finish line. Copy it from the round. Did you reach it, reach part of it, or change course? Each of these is a result. Write which, in a line.

  2. What moved. Open Where the book stands on the home page, or the By state view in Scenes, and note what changed state this round: planned to drafted, drafted to moved or cut. A sentence will do.

  3. What you decided, and why. The choices you made about the book this round, including the ones you made by default.

  4. What is open. Questions still unanswered: Research with When set to Now, inbox notes left unsorted, anything you bracketed more than once.

  5. Promises. Read Planted and Paid for anything pending. Mark any you no longer mean to keep as Cut.

  6. Expensive revision debt. Read the expensive rows. Decide whether any must be repaired before the next round, or can wait for revision.

  7. Rest. How long before the next round starts? Put the date on the next round in Rounds, even if it is a date to decide.

  8. The first scene of the next round. Name it, so the next round starts with something to write.


When you are done, copy your answers to 1, 3, 4 and 8 into the round's Handoff field, mark the round Done and update Novel at a Glance.