There would be a pause button, but there would be no rewind button. And I wanted to try something with timed writing that would just take you through different steps. I also tried a thing where it would give me one highlight from two separate books and I would write about them together, forcing myself to think about the intersection. I wanted to see if I could do something where after the first sequence, it would discard the text from the bottom 4 (based on word count) and then you could add to the survivors, then discard half again until you were left with the one idea that you still have thoughts on. I tried something where it would give me 8 highlights from a book and then cycle through them. They might be good for writing book notes. I’m still curious about that idea though, because when I tried out a couple of the prototypes, I wrote a lot. So I was programming before and after work and happened to be programming at work at the time also. Then I got sort of too deep in the weeds and the tinkering became the thing, instead of the writing. But I was seeing if I could put together something that would let me write timed things based on my Amazon highlights as prompts. Before trying to sit down and write, I was tinkering with Vue.js and… I was going to write the rest of the tech stack and actually it doesn’t matter exactly what I was using. Eventually I realized that the automated prompts can make it easier. Like in high school I remember seeing a video of a rapper freestyling and being impressed that he could rhyme with random words the crowd would give him. It fills the gaps and might be good while free writing to queue things up. I absolutely cannot write with music I would want to listen to.
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