Yeah, I know — it’s been asked and answered in the past but I just arrived after a prolonged absence, so I’m just curious if there’s any kind of update. Feel free to jump down my throat and tell me that it’ll come out when it comes out and I need to shut up before someone here kidnaps me in the middle of the night and locks me in a room where I’m forced to write using nothing but pencil and paper…
I was going to reply to this, but it seems Screenwriter101 was kidnapped in the middle of the night last night. I am told they are locked in a room somewhere with a stack of paper and nothing to write with. Or so the ransom note said. Strangely, it did not ask for money in exchange for their safe return.
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Wait… all I need to do is simply start asking questions publicly about the app and then I get to go live in a quiet room with a large supply of paper and pencils so I can write in peace?!! !?! ?!?
Are meals and water provided? (That’s not a dealbreaker by the way.)
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No. See:
Paper yes, pencils no.
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If history is anything to go by, that wouldn’t significantly impact my productivity.
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I’m flashing back to a certain Heinlein novel where the literary press was consigned to an escapable hell where in there were typewriters aplenty, but no ribbons, etc al…. All the damned had to do was to read… The sign indicating how to exit.
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I feel this in my bones. 
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How about some screenshots?
Pretty sure that would be a violation of the beta testing agreement but, you can find some early ones here in the original announcement on the blog.
I’m overburdened with an abundant feeling of belonging.
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That’s the new writing app? No wonder it’s late.
Software is never late, nor is it early; it arrives precisely when it means to.
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[Chuckles in Old Toby]
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Yup, that’s it. The new writing app – which I think they’re calling Labyrinth Pro – uses the hall of mirrors effect to produce whole novels from just a few lines of content text.
And the critics are raving:
“Brilliant!”
“This hasn’t happened to me since Zardoz!”
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Yawn. ㅤㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ
I read an article that Swift is very much behind Electron/Rust when it comes to creating rich text environments. I’d like to see what the program’s goals are. The spread of Markdown due to generative AI would make a Markdown-based program (or text based) interesting.
I don’t work here[1] but I can confidently say the goals will almost certainly be:
- help people write stuff,
- sell it for money
I have tried suggesting loftier goals (curing cancer, global denuclearisation, and reversing the popular rise of the brioche bun) but keep getting reminded that I don’t work here.[2]
I’ve applied and been rejected 23 times, with reasons given including: “we don’t have any vacancies right now”, “we had other candidates who more closely fit our requirements” and “look, we all think you’re an idiot okay?” ↩︎
“We’re never going to hire you; at least 30% of the complaints we receive are about your nonsense.” ↩︎
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A statement of the obvious as if it were an astonishing discovery.