Want to Write More Words?

Turning writer's block into writer's play

I’m building a new free writing app called DraftDrop (draftdrop.app) and you’re invited to be one of the first users. DraftDrop doesn’t use AI, and it never tries to do writing for you. It doesn’t contain a spell checker or a grammar checker. It only has one font and two font styles: bold or italic. What it’s intended to do is to help you get started with a writing project by breaking you out of your normal writing pattern.

DraftDrop was inspired by William S. Burroughs and Tetris. William S. Burroughs often gets credit for pioneering (or popularizing) a writing technique called “cut up,” in which a writer cuts text from magazines and whatnot and puts it back together randomly to form new sentences or poems. In Tetris, you try to fit falling blocks together to form rows of blocks.

In DraftDrop, words fall down the screen and you must either click them, touch them (on a touch screen) or type them to capture them. Each time you press the Enter key, a new line of text is created and added to an inbox. When you’ve collected some lines of text, you can go to the writing mode and assemble the fragments you captured to start to assemble a poem, story, or whatever!

Check out my video and sign up for DraftDrop. It’s still very much in the early phase of development. But let me know what you think, if you encounter any errors, or if you have any ideas for features that I might add!

Thanks for reading,

Chris