Write Pretty Story, a writing program

2011-07-01 — 3:33 pm

I just made a browser-based writing program that lets you write without editing. Every time you hit return, it formats the paragraph you just wrote. You can’t go back and edit that paragraph. Editing is for people who have completed stories.

Download it here: .zip or .tar.gz or github.com.

To run it, open the “pretty.html” file with your browser.

You can also try it here.

Update: Now it saves your story locally, so when you refresh the page it’s still there.

Posted in code, writing | 5 Comments

5 Responses to “Write Pretty Story, a writing program”

  1. Karl says:
    2011-07-01 at 3:57 pm

    Editing is so bourgeois like punctuation

  2. Natalie says:
    2011-07-01 at 7:14 pm

    Lovely idea! I’ve uncovered a minor glitch. After you’ve hit enter and submitted a paragraph, the cursor is on the second line of the textarea. It doesn’t make any functional difference that I can see, but if you’re like me, if bothers you and you hit backspace to move it back to the first line everytime.

  3. Helen says:
    2011-07-04 at 6:35 pm

    I will definitely be trying this out :)