The Good Patrons of 750 Words

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I am a writer and a poet who spends most of my time writing already. My sister-in-law sent this site to me and I was unsure how I would use it or if it would be helpful at all.

When I first started to use 750 words, I would write a little about what I was thinking and then I would paste in some of the writing I had already done that day in order to meet the 750 word limit. Sometimes it would be a blog post, sometimes a series of poems. However one day I wrote the entry first thing in the morning. I hadn’t really written anything ye, so I had to keep writing about myself. It turns out I am not able to do that for 750 words without writing about writing. Where I want my current project to go, what I might do to improve this story or that, what I could learn about writing from the book I was reading. It was a great discovery. I made so many breakthroughs with the writing I was doing through that one entry and even more through the next.

Now this is still relatively new to me and I don’t expect to do it every day for the rest of my life (but I might) however I think it’s a really good motivational tool to encourage the recording of ideas and days in a really slap dashed, fast paced way.

As a writer who spends a lot of her time editing, it is refreshing to write something that I will never have to edit and that no one else will ever read. It seemed self-indulgent at first, but the effects that it has had on my writing is profound.