Dropped $80 on a month of that writing app that counts your words, and I still write worse than my old notebook

Linda Garcia · 2026-10-02T15:50:04.154249+00:00

So a few weeks back I caved and paid $80 for a year of a writing habit app. You know the ones, streak tracker, word count chart, little badges when you hit 500 words. I wanted to fix my draft problem, since most of my stuff sits half done in Google Docs forever. Two weeks in, I realized I was writing junk just to keep the streak alive. Like 200 words of me describing my kitchen, which is not even in my story. I hit a 14 day streak and every single one of those pages was stuff I would never show anyone. Meanwhile my actual chapter, the messy one I needed help with, sat untouched the whole time. The app made me feel productive without making the draft any better, which is kind of the opposite of what I needed. Has anyone else paid for one of these and had it backfire, or is it just me being bad at routines lol?

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