Write or Die

I just found an intirguing little piece of application on the net called 'write or die.'

It's basically a timed word-counting notepad. You set the difficulty, time limit, and word goal, and once you begin you need to keep on typing until you hit the designated word goal. If you pause the whole work will begin to evaporate. This is a wonderful program to get the creative juices flowing in the morning, as it requires quite a bit of intense concentration within short period of time to be able to fulfill some of the harsher settings. 

The address to the web service is http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html

I highly recommend that you try it. In fact, I'm considering making this into my daily exercise. 

Below is a whole lot of nothing I wrote to test the program out during the lunch time. I wonder if there's any offline version of program like this? (Don't be too hard on me for the horrible writing. I didn't even run it through a spellchecker, and I've been up for 30 hours)


I'm listening to Hulu's fringe as I write this. I'm really curious to see if I can fill up the whole 500 words requirement in the allotted time, which is interesting since it had been what I've always been doing since the primary school. Wait, those this mean that i won't be able to pause this thing again? Typing using this program makes me think of a few ideas. How about a Turing complete typewriter that is rigged to explode unless someone sits in front of it ands type away writing something coherent without pause? An explosion imminent, the the typewriter is reasonably intelligent that it is able to detect repetitive nonsense sentences, run on sentences that is designed to delay the typewriter machine without creativity... Once the writer in front of the typewriter pauses for whatever reason, for a duration more than a brief duration that takes to move fingers between keyboards, ahhh the pause really does work only once. I can't even take a look at the reply on my tweetdeck since going out of the website to look at another program is impossible to do on the little time allotted to the writer on this devilish little program! Anyway, the typewriter is rigged to be able to detect certain traces of creativity. Now we are walking into the realm of fairytale from the realm of mystery suspense. It makes sense. A magical, or perhaps cursed? Or perhaps simply 'purposeful' typewriter. The concept of purpose is a strange thing, in that an everyday item that is normally insentient can be thought of as dreadful once it begets some kind of purpose, an empathy with a human act and thinking (should it be simply human act?). It is really indeed very strange. The Human act... Once an item begets a characteristic that makes it react to certain coherent series of human action, such as forcing a writer to write continuously within allotted time or face horrendous consequences, it takes on a trait of intelligence regardless of presence of conscious. Reaction is taken as being conscious regardless of the act of thinking or conscious contemplation as long as it is coherent in its consequences and possibly purpose. However giving objects purpose itself provides a nasty conundrum for us in that in order to imbue an item with a purpose that can be interpreted coherently by a conscious being, something else has to be present in order to provide the original 'thing' with the coherence of purpose, of action and reaction that can be interpreted by the human being, the writer who sits in front of the typewriter. Some people seem to use similar argument in their defense of the concepts of divinity, I think. (((wow this program is really good for letting the juice flow into my brain. I might as well make this into a daily exercise))) However using such argument to defend the concept of divinity or some proto-conscious being would be a mark of mental retardation or at least of unseemly haste. All that such logic implies would be a conjecture that the 'item', the mechanism in which the 'purpose' is ingrained into the item, and the human being/writer would have to share a common method of sharing information, and that interpretation does not require a proto-consciousness. Simply existing within the same universe alone would be enough to allow them to 'communicate' with each other, since they already share common dimensionality, i.e. connection/language/link/probability etc.