Write or die

[nuttychooky]

I'm not sure if anyone else has come across this yet, but I thought it would be excellent for NaNoWriMo next year- if anyone here participates on here ><;
Basically, you set a goal, a grace period, and a time limit- if you stop typing for longer then your grace period, bad things happen ><;
It's to encourage people to write and keep writing.
Anyway, here's the link:

http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html

[jordanisonfire]

What...sort of bad things?

[Starry]

I think someone might have said something about this in the Nano thread a few weeks ago. *shrug* Whatever. Sounds useful, if I ever wrote to the word count (I set goals by chapters, and I don't do Nano).

[Carraka]

What...sort of bad things?

The keyboard electrocutes you.

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I tried it out all through NaNo, but I don't think it works that well for me, because I start worrying about word count, and forgetting what I'm typing.

[lango]

Ive never tried monitoring myself by word count, but I'll give it a look, sounds interesting.
Usually I monitor myself by how far did I go into the story and how does it relate to what I expected to be able to write that day. I don't recommend this by the way, its a very lazy way to get something done, since usually I don't expect much so my expectations are easily fulfilled.
Yet, word count still sounds artificial for me!

[jordanisonfire]

It... deletes your work?

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What the hell, man?

[lango]

Yeah Im worried about that part myself shadow...
Though you kinda have to choose that first, so its fine I guess...
and when you close the page, it has the option to save your work to your clipboard, I liked that

[mephet]

This is very helpful with NaNo (or anything else of the like), I remember using it a lot when I found it difficult to write, but now that there are no deadlines I find myself avoiding the damn thing. I guess wether it works well or not really depends on the person and the mood, I myself have noticed that at some occasions it has actually improved my writing. Not sure if that is a bad or a good sign...

I have never had the courage to try the Kamikaze mode out. Deleting your work does seem a little too terrifying, so I go with the horrible music instead. : D