Write Or Die

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I often use Write or Die when I have writer's block. Today I used it because I was short on time before work. Write or Die is a web app you can purchase or use a free version of. I discovered it during NaNoWriMo last year and it radically changed my writing process.

Using the free version, I set my goal at 700 words, 15 minutes on "Evil, Kamikaze" mode. Once you hit go, a blank writing space pops up, with a timer in one corner and word count in the other. If you stop writing, the screen flashes increasingly brighter shades of red until you either start writing again or the program starts erasing your words.

I love it.

Here's a screen shot from today's effort to progress my NaNoWriMo project, Fire Starter. It's not pretty. That's the point.

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