I&#x27;m practicing writing fiction, and it&#x27;s gradually coming along, but it&#x27;s pretty hard for me. I really want to get good at it, but my reddit-addicted brain just seems to refuse to engage in this activity, doesn&#x27;t enter the flow. Programming, on the other hand, works very well(it has an immediate feedback&#x2F;gratification loop and clear goals). So I&#x27;m trying to figure out what kind of system would help me to experience the same thing in writing.<p>&#x2F;r&#x2F;WritingPrompts is pretty helpful, and blogging has sort of natural gamification(traffic&#x2F;upvotes&#x2F;comments) embedded in it, but these are misleading, my brain is getting dopamine spikes out of seing upvotes or refreshing the stats, not out of the writing process itself.<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking about making a website with daily flashfiction challenges(100-1000 words, winners determined by voting, leaderboard of the best writers), but it&#x27;s not that different from writingprompts. Github-like streaks could help perhaps(a visual representation of how many words you have written every day, and how many days in a row you write). Or maybe a text editor with a progress bar that would show how much words you have written until reaching a daily goal....<p>There&#x27;s gotta be a way to design a feedback loop that would make writing fiction addictive.<p>What are some ways to make writing process more fun and engaging? Are there some tools&#x2F;techniques I can use?
Ask HN: What are some ways to gamify writing?