Draw a form
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The deck is face down.
Pull a form to start an episode.
Committed
Narrow the deck
Leave this on chance and the deck decides. Choose one and it's yours — the tradition and difficulty filters below stop applying.
Tradition
Difficulty
Out of the deck
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Your practice pieces in this form
What this form asks
Line by line isn't available for this form — it has no fixed line count, so there's no fixed set of fields to build. Freeform is the only mode here.
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Syllable assist
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Revision ledger
Lines0
Written0
Cut0
Cut events0
Kept—
Biggest cut0
Preview used0
Preview penalty00:00
Previewed & dropped0
What you took out
Nothing cut yet. Everything you delete is logged here with a timestamp.
Committing locks the poem and freezes the ledger. You can reopen it, but the reopen is counted and stays on the record.
Recording this session
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Kept on this device and nothing else. It is never attached to a submission and no one else can see it. Browser storage can be cleared or evicted without warning, so this is a working record, not an archive — save a session to a file for anything worth keeping.
Composition log
How a poem actually got written, reconstructed from the local log. Nothing here is sent anywhere, and nothing here can change a draft.
No sessions recorded yet.
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Where it was hardest
Lines revised more than three times. These are where the poem actually happened.
Line by line
Every version of every line, in the order it was written, with the gap between attempts. Select a line to read its history.
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Liner notes
How poems are built, in plain language. Nothing here is graded and nothing is timed — read it in any order.
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Season log
A season is twelve. At twelve, close it out and run the awards.
Pull from the season
Commit a form at the desk and it appears here with its label and etch filled in.
Etch the runout
The take
Clean frame hides everything but the record and rolls automatically. Esc to come back, space to re-roll.
Battle
Round codes are announced at the end of every Dead Wax episode and posted in the pinned comment. Everyone entering a round uses that same code — enter it below to see this round's form, handicaps, and the poem to beat.
Codes aren't sent between people, and there's no opponent to contact inside the app. Every challenger writes against this week's published poem, not against another person.
Round
Handicaps
The round code sets the form. Both writers get the same draw.
Bouts
Chad pairs two submissions from the same round on merit and contrast, after the fact, on camera. Both poems air, credited by handle, and the audience votes.
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The chart
Chad picks which poems air. The audience decides who won. Chart position comes from an audience vote, hand-entered after each episode — never from a compliance score.
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Season titles
Hall of Fame
Retired number ones, across seasons.