Write Away

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There are dozens of websites and apps out there to help if you want get to grips with daily tasks, cleaning, healthy eating, fitness and so on. They turn daily tasks into a fun game, with rewards for accomplishing tasks and levelling up.

I'm talking about something like Habit RPG (now called Habitica). Or perhaps even an organisational app, but used the same kind of purpose, like Todoist?

Has anyone here used a games or task management app to motivate or track their writing?

I'm really interested in trying one but I'm not sure which ones are best for writing. A lot of them seem more suitable for tracking various kinds of general chores.

Did you ever gamify your writing, and how much fun was it?

Thanks for any responses. :)

I have a real trouble writing endings. I plan my ending, I can see it, and then just a little from the final push I often grind to a halt.

This has happened to me many times. It always seems to be for a different reason. So far these have included:

> I hit a plot point I hadn't worked out yet, or forget what I'd decided to do about it.
> There are so many threads to tie up and my brain busts something trying to hold onto them all.
> I get worried readers won't like how the story is going to end.
> I get sucked into research instead and never come out.
> I get crippling embarrassment that my story is rubbish, and if I don't finish it, I never have to show it to anyone.
> I get distracted by other ideas for stories and lose momentum.
> Story fatigue. My brain just wants a break from these characters or the setting.
> Or conversely, I'm enjoying the story so much I don't want it to end.

Does anyone else have trouble with endings? How did you solve it? Or are some stories just better off staying unfinished?

About half the time, I breeze right through to the end of a story no problem. I don't know what makes these any different than the ones that I have trouble with.

Any thoughts? What works for you?

( Have a picture of a slightly bewildered kitten wondering where the ending to his novel went. )