| thegothicpixie | Write Or Die |
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Oct 1, 2009 - 23 07 |
http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html A delightful place to help you churn out a few hundred (or thousand) words in a relatively short span of time. |
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7,044 / 50,000
Oct 1, 2009 - 23 12
it's brilliant and it really does help a lot!
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Oct 2, 2009 - 01 32
Love it! =)
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54,011 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 01 33
I used it for most of my novel last year and really got a lot out of it. Be careful if your typing on a laptop though because I would accidently click off of the text box and then hit backspace and loose all my words.
----------"Yes, I live in my own little world, but I get lost sometimes because there's no such thing as maps; and people don't like me very much so I get bad directions!"
83,028 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 03 48
I love this - don't know if I'll be using it for the contest or not - but boy do I love it anyways!
----------Incubus: Fear the Night
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90,657 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 04 47
I love Write or Die. It's how I wrote most of my novel last year when I was just too tired to write.
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28,015 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 06 55
How great is this concept? NaNoWriMo really is for masochistic nerds. lol
----------"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." - Stephen King
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37,013 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 09 08
WoD is THE best thing I've ever come across! Doing it on Kamikazi mode is just.... you daren't even stop to think!
Dr. Wicked is working on a desktop version as well, which'd be pretty amazing!
----------Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality
15,239 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 15 09
They've been working on the desktop version for almost a year, though. Has anyone seen updates?
----------http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/MyMonth/95590-goal=200000-pc-day...
Ideal Goal: 200k
Minimum Goal: finish Only Child
5,095 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 15 30
According to Jeff Printy's Twitter (@drwicked), it is supposed to be done before the start of this year's NaNo.
I found it extremely helpful last year, and I would credit it as the main reasons I managed to reach 50,000. So, I'm very excited about having a desktop edition to play around with.
----------Nothing's gonna change my world.
30,028 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 16 41
I didn't start using Write or Die until a few months ago. I'm definitely going to be making use of it this year.
13,196 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2009 - 05 09
Write or Die saved my life last year. I don't think I would have reached 50,000 words without out. And this desktop edition is news to me. I'm excited to see it!
----------You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough - Mae West
76,031 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 06 03
I didn't try the kamikaze mode yet (too scared) but the other modes help me a lot ! I tend to be a veeeeeery slow writer...
----------The desktop edition will be awesome !
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22,000 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 08 38
Thank you sooooo much for posting this site!! I loved using it last year, but I recently had to switch to a new laptop, which didn't have all my bookmarked websites. I wasn't sure I'd find it again.
----------Okami
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Papers Written for Class: 3
Tests Taken: 5
Speeches given: 2
NaNo Breakdowns: 1
2008 - Another Destiny - Completed 11/30/08
2009 - Cresthill - Pending
7,827 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 08 55
Ditto! I hadnt' had a chance to bookmark it yet. Yeah! Now it's saved!
----------~*krazikrys*~
NaNo '09 - Untitled and Unknown
33,000 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 20 09
I love Write or Die. I can't wait for a desktop version. (:
----------I drive really slow in the ultra-fast lane while people behind me are goin' insane.
33,441 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2009 - 07 10
Oh, I do love WoD! Kamikaze mode is the best! I set it for 500 words in 20 minutes but chose the lower setting for kamikaze so I had about ten seconds or something like that before it started eating my words.
Just don't use it when you're watching your favorite shows. ^_~ You can only pause it once too, so make sure you pee before you start! :D
Oh, and I would also suggest this: while it is very useful at cranking out the words, I would recommend using it as a resort. Write your novel in a comfortable way, but when you get to a part that just has you stuck, whip out Write or Die. I don't think it would be wise to write your whole novel that way, but... that's just my opinion!
----------37,013 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2009 - 08 16
I've seen a screenshot of it. He posted it on his twitter account a while ago. http://twitpic.com/iojme ----------
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality
22,117 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2009 - 09 05
Love this site! Used it today for the first time, trying to get myself in the mindset for some pre-NaNo writing. Definitely helped me crank out 1000 words. I think I would use it on the slowest setting though, cause it didn't leave me any time to think otherwise. Which maybe is the point, but I'd like my novel to at least make *some* sense! ;)
----------2009 stats:
Characters: 5
Plot: .25
Most Caffeine Consumed in One Day: 2
Best Daily Word Count: 3453
Sanity Left: 70%
19,832 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2009 - 22 12
Write or Die: it's how I wrote over 20,000 words in one day O.o
25,112 / 50,000
Oct 6, 2009 - 10 57
this is such an awesome concept -- i'd seriously never heard of it before. i'm definitely sharing it with some of my friends for when we procrastinate on essays for our profs. :]
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Oct 6, 2009 - 19 10
Write or Die was definitely the best thing to happen to me during nano last year. I wrote 12k in a day once - just started writing with a set goal of 2k words at the top of each hour and got to spend the time remaining goofing off until the next hour rolled around. Definite incentive to write as quickly as possible, in addition to all of WoD's evil tricks.
40,642 / 50,000
Oct 7, 2009 - 03 23
I think the idea behind Write or Die is neat, but sadly it doesn't work for me at all.
I mean, what does really happen when I pause? The colors change and then after a long while (at least it felt really long to me) the awful sound effects kick in. Big friggin' deal. *yawn*
You have to type just one word to reset all this and have more time to think. Maybe I'm just too thick-skinned but that stuff doesn't motivate me at all. Plus, the fact that it eats your words in kamikaze mode just annoyed me last year. I had to retype half a sentence and then had forgotten the next one I had come up with right before I noticed my words vanishing. Not helpful at all. And still not motivating.
Plus, I noticed when I tried it last year that my writing devolves into incoherent rambling, just to keep typing something. When I read the stuff over afterwards I just deleted it all, because it was a complete, unsalvageable mess.
It is a fun little gimmick for word wars and such, where all that counts is how many words you can crank out in a given time span. But even though I embrace the notion of a shitty first draft and don't try to make it perfect, especially during NaNo, I want my story to make sense. For me that just doesn't happen with WoD.
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Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control...
- Eminem
0 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 15 21
What an interesting gadget. I think I might just try it out and see if it works for me or not. This will be my first year participating in NaNo, and I'm sure to need all the help I can get... I hope this will give me the extra boost I need! (Since I have such a busy schedule with college). Thank you for sharing this. Once I try it out, I might come back and post whether it worked or not.
50,000 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 15 39
I love using Write or Die whenever I get too thinkie and not enough typie. That usually happens when I'm trying to plan out an entire scene before actually writing it, and it slows me down. So I head on over to Dr Wicked and go for a while.
While I do get good descriptions, dialogue, and action, for me its mainly a planning tool. It forces me to take the scene in whatever way pops into my head at the time, and I find more often than not its really the best way. Once I'm done, I take it over to my WIP, clean it up, and add more words to flesh out the half formed ideas into something workable, often getting as many words into the scene as I got from Write or Die. In turn, this has helped me double if not triple my daily #writegoals.
Because I have ADHD, this is SUCH a helpful tool for when the shiny distracts me.
Speaking of which, I just found an aluminum foil ball that needs some attention.
Huh. Maybe its time to Write or Die.
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Oct 8, 2009 - 16 56
I love Write or Die - you wouldn't think the 'penalties' on anything but kamikaze mode would motivate you to write faster, but I found myself pushing harder just to get the triumphant little sound that meant I'd passed my word count goal before time was up! Of course, that could just be me...
*So* glad the desktop version is almost ready!
58,214 / 50,000
Oct 9, 2009 - 03 43
Write or Die saved my NaNo last year. I was doing terribly for the first week or so until I found Write or Die, but then I started setting it on kamikaze mode and actually got some writing done. I actually doubled the number of words I could churn out in an hour with this- never thought the amount of time I spent wandering off to get a cup of tea made such a difference! And it turns out I don't really need all that thinking time when I'm writing either, if anything the parts I wrote with Write or Die actually flowed better than the bits I didn't.
----------Surrealism without purpose is like fish.
11,047 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 10 09
I can say for sure that I wouldn't have reached 50k last November without this. I thought there was going to be a desktop edition released and was hoping that would be in time for this year but doesn't look likely =(
3,066 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 05 27
I am most definetly a convert to 'Write Or Die'. It has helped me crank out some pretty decent stuff of late. I come to the keyboard with one idea and leave having produced a different story completely! Is there definite confirmation that the desktop version won't be ready this year? I can't wait to get it!
----------"The first draft of anything is shit." - Ernest Hemmingway
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10,276 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 06 49
That is awesome.
----------Gia Manry
Editor-in-Chief, Anime Vice
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11,047 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 10 50
Is there definite confirmation that the desktop version won't be ready this year? I can't wait to get it!
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I've been following him on Twitter and iy sounds like it's coming along, but I can't seem to find anywhere saying when it is likely to be released =(