Write or DIE!
I found this new (to me) writing tool that is actually giving me some hope for getting back into doing warm-ups/free writes/writing exercises. A friend of mine just introduced me to it and I have downloaded its desktop version. It is a program which times you as you write, allows you to set time and word count goals, plays a truly obnoxious alarm if you cease typing for a given number of seconds…
Basically it’s a computer version of a dominant for writing. Given that I AM a dominant, I get a little itchy about someone else cracking the whip, even if that someone else is a computer program – I know I know! I have issues! But dammit, some days I think dominant or no, if someone doesn’t crack the whip on me I’ll never write again.
So I grit my teeth and type, even when some days I have to revert to what one writing mentor suggested to me years ago… “When you have nothing to write about, write about how you have nothing to write about…just don’t stop writing!” It’s sad how many files I have of 15 minutes worth of “I hate this, I have nothing to write about, I hate writing when I have nothing to write about! Stop buzzing at me you bleeding bugger of a computer program!!!”
But for any writing masochists out there (or other desperate non-masochists such as myself) check it out. Write or Die! Just gotta love the name, right?
It even keeps track of your “punishments!”
