Are you a blogger who rarely gets to finish a blog post on time because of your bad habit of setting things aside for later?

Don’t worry, you’re not alone. It usually takes me hours just to finish a single blog post, sometimes even days. Procrastination is the habit I’ve been trying to break for months now.

Thank God I finally stumbled upon a solution that works. It’s a tool aptly named Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die.

Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you’re fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences.

Dr. Wicked said that the reason why he made this application is because he believes that “a tangible consequence is more effective than an intangible reward”. Consequences comes in different flavors:

• There’s the Gentle mode where a popup window would gently remind you to start typing again
• There’s the Normal mode, where an unpleasant sound (a really unpleasant sound) will play continuously until you go back typing again
• In the Kamikaze mode, your work will unwrite itself little by little until you go back to work
• And finally, the electric shock mode… I can’t provide a description for this, I’m too scared to try it out.

I have tried this application and it really works for me. As proof, I managed to finish this blog post in just 31 minutes using the said application. Yeah, baby!

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You can check out “Write or Die” here. Don’t forget to read the details and instructions on how to use the application. Hope this tool helps.

Say goodbye to Procrastination! Happy Blogging!