http://www.blackgate.com/2008/12/23/hi-tech-lo-tech-write-or-die/ Adventures in Fantasy Literature Thu, 17 May 2012 03:09:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.blackgate.com/2008/12/23/hi-tech-lo-tech-write-or-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1260 Black Gate » Blog Archive » Write-or-Die Spreads Fear Toxin from Your Desktop Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:38:53 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=1298#comment-1260 [...] I blogged at the time that Write-or-Die wasn’t the sort of writing help that I needed: a web application that provides punishment if the writer did not continue to pound away at the keys in a steady beat. Many people love it, and claim they would never meet any of their daily deadlines without the program’s specter of terror, like the Scarecrow from Batman Begins hovering over them with his fear toxin, forcing them to dash forward. But I never found it that useful a tool—and I had a fear of losing my writing that was stronger than Write-or-Die’s punishments of annoying sounds and un-typing my last few words. [...] [...] I blogged at the time that Write-or-Die wasn’t the sort of writing help that I needed: a web application that provides punishment if the writer did not continue to pound away at the keys in a steady beat. Many people love it, and claim they would never meet any of their daily deadlines without the program’s specter of terror, like the Scarecrow from Batman Begins hovering over them with his fear toxin, forcing them to dash forward. But I never found it that useful a tool—and I had a fear of losing my writing that was stronger than Write-or-Die’s punishments of annoying sounds and un-typing my last few words. [...]

]]> http://www.blackgate.com/2008/12/23/hi-tech-lo-tech-write-or-die/comment-page-1/#comment-369 Write or Die and Dark Room — More Distraction Free Writing — BillWardWriter.com Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:18:26 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=1298#comment-369 [...] blog entry about it on Black Gate lead me to Dark Room, he also blogged about Write or Die here), Dark Room is basically a full-screen, green text on black, text editor with very simple [...] [...] blog entry about it on Black Gate lead me to Dark Room, he also blogged about Write or Die here), Dark Room is basically a full-screen, green text on black, text editor with very simple [...]

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