The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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This is a place where I go for secrets. For sudden inspiration. For manic production when I want to time myself.

I haven’t made daily writing a priority. Yet. For now, I just need this place that serves me in a way a physical journal or online blogs cannot. This has evolved in many ways since I’ve used this service and I’m sure it will continue to change as a resource as I require.

This is a place that serves many purposes.
Enjoy.

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I love this site. I’ve been writing for a month, and this has become my daily morning routine. The site has certainly given me enough momentum to start the day with fresh ideas and leave behind the negativity that usually bothers me. I hope I can keep up this habit – I find it pretty cool to re-read my own entries after a month. I found a lot of interesting thoughts that I didn’t know I had.

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I have been using 750 words for several years now but have only this year started to take my writing practice seriously. I love the simplicity of the site as I can just log in and get going.Most days I use it as a brain dump, clearing out the clutter with a view to kick-starting my creative impulses. When I begin writing I am intrigued as to which way my mind will take me and very often I will have at least one mini epiphany during the course of the words and I find the whole process fascinating. I can’t recommend 750 words enough!

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I’ve been writing morning pages on paper for over three years now. When I found this site I was skeptical. I guess I was a purist at heart and if Cameron said to do it on paper what other way could there be?! After just a month I’ve discovered and embraced that writing morning pages digitally is indeed okay. For the first time in three years I wrote the full amount every single day. And I got feedback and encouragement on how I was doing. Plus I don’t have to contribute to the growing stack of notebooks that I’d really like to trash but can’t seem to bring myself to do. The other advantage is this: with the paper notebooks, I always had the vague sense that there might be something in them, some germ of an idea, that might be something someday. But how to uncover it amidst all those pages? Now I know that all the words are there in digital format and, if I so desire, I can get at them and analyze them and search for that germ. I just paid for my subscription and I don’t see ever going back to the notebooks!

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It would be nice to have an app that would allow me to write offline & sync later, so as not to lose my streak even when I cannot get online for a couple of days.

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during the month of April I have been in hospital with pneumonia, and had seventeen stitches on a cut on my leg – the wound became infected snd i was in hospital again, to have it cleaned nd again to have the skin graft that was necessary . In short, `i have spent most of the month either in hospital, or at home in bed with my leg up or on crutches (foremother three weeks) But the most important thing about this is that i wrote 750+ words every day! Even when i came back from surgery ! This has given mdc a huge boost of confidence – I know now that i can do anything I put my mind to -that i will sit down and do it no matter what – I love this site! it has kept me connected with my writing and with my feelings – this is not a month I would care to repeat bt i am extremely grateful for what it has given me.

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A mobile site where you can do a force-save of your work would be awesome.

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I am very thankful to 750 Words for providing this platform! Few years ago I was literally unable to write anything longer than few sentences. My creative output was blocked. Now after practicing, even though I am not as constant as I would like, my skills are better and my self-confidence higher. I am even having ideas for books! Cheers to all the writers out there!

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Would love to see more analysis about the quality of writing, in addition to the fabulous emotional information. Part of the enjoyment of daily writing, for me, is technical improvement.

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750words has enabled me to have a secure place to be creative and let loose. The ability to export these and work on them in other editors has really helped me pan for gold in my muddy river of an imagination. 750words is a key component of my mind’s sluice.

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750 words helped me reactivate the discipline to write everyday again, which has increased my creative output overall. Since starting, I’ve been able to finish a full-length play and create an entire musical, which is currently in rehearsal. In fact, I write so much creatively now that I don’t necessarily need 750 words in order to say I’m writing every day. But getting up at 6 am every morning and writing my words has become such a beloved ritual that I can’t imagine my mornings without it. Thank you for getting me back on track!

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I used to use 750 all the time. For about a year and a half, 750 words propelled my writing. And then I stopped due to moves, job changes, a marriage, and general life craziness. But now I’m back with bigger, more consequential writing projects and deadlines (read: book contracts!). I have been all over the blogs and websites and listicles about the latest and greatest to help inspire and track writing. This is the only program that really works for me. It’s good to be back!

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Writers write and i love having a place where I can come be me and write. I do more than just write. I reflectively look at life, the good and the bad and I tweek the day so that it flows in the direction of my choosing. Just being disciplined and organized has empowered me beyond my dreams. Thank you , thank you, thank you!

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Perhaps I’ve not found this feature on the page and it already exists, if it doesn’t already exist, I think it would be cool to get text analysis on different timelines. I love reading my text analysis at the end of my daily 750, but I think it would be great to get analysis for the whole week, last ten sessions, last month, all time, etc.

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I have gained so much self improvement through the 750 words program; my typing speed has increased from 20 wpm to 55 wpm, I have more clarity and eloquence when thinking and speaking, this is something everyone should at least try, it’s a great form of meditation and once I’ve seen how much content I’m able to produce in so little time it’s really inspired me to write more and shown me that writing a book could be a very achievable goal.

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I landed on the /members site and wanted to hand over my Paypal details so I can continue to use this excellent site … but there was so much writing on the page, and the button so elusive, that I almost gave up. I suggest you make it clearer and a little less cluttered. Or at least make the call to action above the button clearer :)

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At some point, in this process of coming to this computer daily and writing, I passed 100,000 words. I have a flock. No fan fare. No bells and whistles, no counting, like I did when I passed 100 days. I just looked at my stats and noticed a new badge. And I felt, kind of proud, that I have actually written this much, this consistently for this amount of time. And it is leading to other writing in other places. Daily. So thank you. Here’s to noticing the second flock.

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The badges are great rewards and motivate me to keep going. After my 30 days in a row badge, I’ve yet to get a new one and it kind of bums me out. haha!

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I want to throw out there that right now I am not doing well at being who I want to be or working toward who I want to become. I am slipping into a concerning pattern of laziness and demotivation. However the Bible often talks about a ‘remnant.’ This is when the Hebrews are backslidden and it looks like all is lost, God preserves a remnant to keep His word and His law. In a lot of ways, 750 words is my remnant. I have not been habitually writing for a long time, but no matter how lazy or demotivated I get, I write my 1000 words (I upped it from 750, because I…well, I do not really have a good reason. I just did.) Anyway, I still read my bible as well, and to process all the thoughts, I have this site.

I want to take this testimonial note as an opportunity to thank Buster and Kellianne for providing this outlet to preserve my remnant. Today’s writing (well, really this note is a pretty good summary of it) was powerful and I am thinking it is about time to turn this crazy train around.

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Basically what it says on the tin – the ability to change your target word count to anywhere between 750 and, say, 2000. It could have a ‘cooldown’ of a few days so that you couldn’t cheat and set your word target low for a single day – you have to commit. The reason I request this is that it’s quite easy to hit 750 words, and I find myself tailoring what I’m writing to fit into that amount. The ability to increase that amount would force me to write more, which would be very handy.

Thanks!

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It’s hard to write a testimonial when after years of membership (before 2012) I discovered today I had to pay 5 dollars a month to be able to schedule time off when I go into the hospital for cardiac surgery (whereas I paid nothing in March). What gives?

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101 days… 100.000 words… I did it. I generated more material for my future writings than I did the last five years – probably the last ten years. I thank you so much!