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I Love the Most Dangerous Writing App!
Could you write a whole nonfiction article without stopping?
In the cult classic film Speed, Keanu Reeves had to continuously drive a bus at 50 miles per hour, or it would explode.
In a great Medium article I read this morning, I learned that someone has taken that concept, and applied it to writing.
The Most Dangerous Writing App is a website that starts you with a blank page, much like Medium. You can start typing. But the catch is, if you pause for 5 seconds or more, everything you’ve written disappears.
Lots of Medium articles talk about the importance of just sitting down and writing, entering a flow state, not worrying about typos, etc. But here’s a chance to try it out for real, in an insane game of chicken which might easily destroy something you’ve spent at least several minutes of your life putting together.
You can just start typing into the Most Dangerous Writing App, but they’ll also give you a a prompt. Most are fiction-specific. I write non-fiction articles, so the first few prompts didn’t work for me. But after three refreshes, I got a sufficiently non-fiction-ish prompt (“Reluctantly, he handed over the key") that I felt I could start.
