[SteveJS]

I wrote something for myself that removes the editor entirely.

This gives a word sprint of 15 minutes with a visible goal of 1000 words. Hitting ESC leaves it ready to paste elsewhere.

No backspace, no delete, only enough feedback to know your typing is captured, and whether you are on pace.

https://github.com/SteveJSteiner/BantamScribe

It is also entirely local.

Spelling and grammar errors take something like 60 seconds to fix in any reasonable editor that has suggested spelling fixes.

The goal is to focus on the idea and dispense with what should be automated. This is for exploring ideas not refining wording.

For a novel, the choice to edit as you go is orthogonal to avoiding editing during a word sprint. The real issue is during revision you’ll find you corrected a bunch of stuff you are cutting. If that editing was cheap who cares? If you sweated over a sentence for 15 minutes you might do the wrong thing and not cut it even though that is better for the story.