The Most Dangerous Writing Prompt Generator

Written By Michael Wense

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.

Michael Wense
A St. Louis native, Michael Wense is a writer, editor, technology goon, and kitchen connoisseur. When he’s not hunting down misplaced modifiers or common misspellings, he’s tinkering with a short story or obsessively collecting recipes. Sometimes he’ll just sit and watch cooking shows on Netflix for hours. Like a zombie. When it comes to fiction, he prefers potent pieces with a cutting emotional edge. Novels are good, but the punch of a perfect short story will bring him to his knees.
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