OKAY THEN.
Jul. 28th, 2010 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritI'd heard about this little internet tool called "Write or Die" but hadn't ever tried it out.
Considering the fact that I only managed a paltry 174 words yesterday, I decided to implement Write or Die this evening, especially since no one is in the Word War Room this time of night (usually). We take our prodding where we can find it, yes?
If you stop typing, Write or Die gets ANGRY--the screen goes pink and progressively scales up until it's red. And then it plays... the Banana Phone song? What is that I don't even. You start typing again JUST TO MAKE IT STOP OMG. EDIT: Okay, I just did another round in "Kamikaze Mode." If you stop for too long, it erases what you've been typing and keeps erasing it until you start typing again. EVIL. 600 words that time.
And, okay. I'm going to call my initial use of it a "rousing success." In half an hour, I wrote 527 words and moved my plot forward. I think that may be some kind of record for me. And I realize that the Shiny will no doubt wear off this thing with use, but for tonight it worked and I am pleased as punch. Tim has had a try/not-quite-success cycle, and now it's time for him to up the ante a little.
Of course, that means that my goal of 5,000 words is probably too damn low--seeing as I just blew right past 4,300 words and I don't see wrapping it up in the next 700. But then, this is a first draft. It is permitted to be wordy and sucky. Perhaps I shall leave the scene with the police coming to his door out, as I'm not sure that actually adds anything other than realism. To my werewolf story. Yeah.
Considering the fact that I only managed a paltry 174 words yesterday, I decided to implement Write or Die this evening, especially since no one is in the Word War Room this time of night (usually). We take our prodding where we can find it, yes?
If you stop typing, Write or Die gets ANGRY--the screen goes pink and progressively scales up until it's red. And then it plays... the Banana Phone song? What is that I don't even. You start typing again JUST TO MAKE IT STOP OMG. EDIT: Okay, I just did another round in "Kamikaze Mode." If you stop for too long, it erases what you've been typing and keeps erasing it until you start typing again. EVIL. 600 words that time.
And, okay. I'm going to call my initial use of it a "rousing success." In half an hour, I wrote 527 words and moved my plot forward. I think that may be some kind of record for me. And I realize that the Shiny will no doubt wear off this thing with use, but for tonight it worked and I am pleased as punch. Tim has had a try/not-quite-success cycle, and now it's time for him to up the ante a little.
Of course, that means that my goal of 5,000 words is probably too damn low--seeing as I just blew right past 4,300 words and I don't see wrapping it up in the next 700. But then, this is a first draft. It is permitted to be wordy and sucky. Perhaps I shall leave the scene with the police coming to his door out, as I'm not sure that actually adds anything other than realism. To my werewolf story. Yeah.
