The Most Dangerous Writing Prompt Generator →

For writers who like to live on the edge, here’s a fun web-based app from Manuel Ebert (@maebert): The Most Dangerous Writing Prompt Generator. The concept is simple and fun (if slightly terrifying): keep writing or lose everything.

You can start off with a totally blank canvas or have the app generate a random first-line prompt to give you some inspiration, and you set either a word goal or how many minutes you want to spend writing. After that, you start typing, and if you pause for a few seconds, the text starts turning red and hazy to warn you to keep typing. If you don’t, the entire page goes red with a “You Failed” message.

Thankfully, the app allows you to export what you managed to get out into a PDF or text document.

I gave it a shot, and while I can’t imagine doing a lot of writing that way, it’s a novel concept that’s well executed. Check it out at The Most Dangerous Writing Prompt Generator.