The Most Dangerous Writing App isn't shy about patting itself on the back with self-naming itself, and it's not shy about ruining an artistic moment of inspiration that requires a person to pause and ruminate on the possibilities of phrasing.
But that's not the point.
The Most Dangerous Writing App is an open source app that uses a fogged screen and a countdown clock, all in hopes of forcing one to write. If you pause for more than five seconds, everything you wrote is lost, deleted, gone. The fogged screen serves as a focus to simply write as well, forgiving typos and grammar in favor of decidedly placing words on screen--even hot messes in a hazy condition.
You're allowed to endlessly backspace, if you even have an idea where you are on the screen (it's fogged, remember?), but at some point you don't focus on the snafus. You channel your inner James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and slap wildly at the keys in hopes that some nugget, some string of words, a phrase, a sentence sounds like poetry, the beginning of a novel, the ending of an opus, the breaking of your heart.
photo: Wired.com
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