I'm going to assume that in your role you probably have to do some type of writing
perhaps you write a regular blog article for your own personal website
or perhaps you write blog content for your company or organization
perhaps you are starting to write a book and you have a goal to write a new chapter each and every week
or perhaps you just need to get that marketing report done or some other piece of written work done this week
well today I want to introduce you to the most dangerous writing app and I love that title
you can find it at the most dangerous writing app.com and the entire purpose of this application this web-based tool is to keep you in flow
I don't know if you're like me but when I go to write something I'm often a bit of a perfectionist
and I overanalyze what I'm writing while I'm writing
too often I have started to write an article or started to write a report and after the first two sentences I start to overanalyze those sentences saying well that's not exactly what I wanted to say
or maybe I'd like it to sound a bit more like this
and I waste a lot of time because as any established or professional author will tell you
you want to get into to some type of flow
you want to get into some type of rhythm
you can always edit it later and in most cases you should edit it later
and that's what the most dangerous writing app can help you with
here you can see their tagline don't stop typing or all progress will be lost and that is very and 100% true when it comes to the most dangerous writing app
here's how it works you get a choice of either the length of time that you would like to write or the number of words that you would like to write
so it has several different defaults
no you cannot select your own specific length or your own specific word count
but they give enough variety here I think for any writer to use or benefit from
so here's the number of minutes that you can select from
and I usually prefer this one is the number of words
when I sit down to write a new blog article I'm usually targeting somewhere around 500 Words so that's the length that I will select
I'm not really sure about this one 1667 words I don't know if that's an inside joke for writers or authors
if you know what this number is referring to please leave your answer or leave your comments in the section below
now I'm going to get back to hardcore mode a little bit later but let's don't worry about that just yet
so let's say you want to sit down and you want to write for five minutes so we've got minute selected and then we've got five
the next step is we select the big start writing button and then we get a blank page
we get a blank canvas to start typing
now just before I begin start typing I just want to highlight few of the other things that we see on this screen
number one I love that most of it is blank
this is not a place to do any editing bold italicize bullet points this is pure for writing
if you have a preference of a dark contrast or a light contrast it allows you to do that
you can expand the entire screen if you want to hide even your web browser
and then at the very bottom you can see we have our word count and it doesn't matter if you've selected a time limit or a word count limit it's always going to show you the number of words down below
and then lastly you will see right here creeping out from the top left corner there will a progress bar that will start to branch out
now this will either represent the amount of time that I've selected
and so in this case we've selected 5 minutes so you know it's going to slowly creep out across here until we get to 5 minutes on the right hand side of the screen
or it will represent the number of words that you have typed if that was your goal
so how does it work
so I haven't started yet as soon as I start typing it is keeping track of how often my key are on the screen and if I pause it's going to start fade
oh did you see that it started fading there a little bit now I have a tough time talking and typing at the same time so yeah this is a little gobbly go
but I'm going to stop again and watch it's going to start to fade
and I'm going to stop it once more now this next time I'm going to let it fade out and it's about a 5-second interval and if you stop typing for 5 seconds it's gone
I failed even gives me a big red screen and yeah you can see how many words you wrote
and no I don't feel like tweeting this out to anyone but the entire concept is this if you stop typing within that interval whether it's a time-based or a word-based you are going to lose everything
the goal here is just to keep writing
keep it coming keep writing
you can always edit it later and if you achieve that milestone if you achieve that limit that you have set out to do well then can keep the work
right nothing's going to happen you're not going to get this red screen in the future so if we say try again it's just going to bring us back and keep us at that time limit
let me show you that fail once again
so again I'm a poor typer and speaker at the same time so I'm just sort of putting some garbage down here in front of me
and here you can see this progress bar right which is a timer in this case
but if I wait right it's going to give a slight fade
oh oh I better yeah let's keep writing let's keep writing
so it is going to give us a bit of a visual indicator and then if I wait too long and it is gone
I fail oh nine words again they weren't really words it was really more a mashing of keys in this example
but I have actually used this quite regularly over the last few weeks
let's go back to the home screen just so I can show you that last setting which is hardcore mode
now this one really surprised me and I think this is only for experienced writers because I'll show you exactly what happens when you select hardcore mode
you can do it for minutes or words it's available in both both options
but if I say start writing you'll see that my screen looks a little bit fuzzier right
you can't even see that that says start typing and watch as I start entering in some keys it quickly puts the letter of the key that I'm hitting at that moment but you can see I can't actually read what I'm writing
now I guess for some very experienced writers or authors this is fine
you know just a stream of Consciousness just keep it coming without even being able to proofread it
and of course if you stop typing you're going to get the exact same fail screen
I have not used hardcore mode before I am not ready for that and I don't think I'll ever be ready for that
I do want to see what I have just written down and how that forms what comes next
but this may be a very big help to you especially if you're in a bit of a writing rut
I've used this for a variety of different content
most often for articles and blog content
recently I actually used it when I wanted to compose a letter to a relative of mine
it was around the holidays I really wanted to reach out to this person and I sort of kept putting it off
but I wanted to give something a bit more meaningful than just a five-sentence email or short paragraph in an email
and the most dangerous writing app helped me to do so
it allowed me to sit down write about 500 Words
just let it come out just whatever was on my mind whatever I wanted to say and express
and then of course I didn't send that letter as is
I went back
it's very easy you you'll get it in a in a Note file in a text file
sorry is how you can export it or you can just copy and paste what you see on the screen and then put it in a Word document
put it in a web page put it in your blog editor
wherever you'd like to edit it afterwards
and in my particular example it was great
I could edit the letter
I could edit some of the content
but the important thing was it allowed me to do it in a much shorter period of time
because I knew if I stopped writing I was going to lose it all
so check out the most dangerous writing app
you might want to start out just by doing it for fun
but you might be surprised how it can help you get more done and really get into that writer's Zone
achieve that type of flow with your writing
I'd love to hear your experience with the most dangerous writing app
so be sure to share your experience in the comments below
remember being productive does not need to be difficult
in fact it's very simple
