The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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I have been writing here since 2011, over 250,000 words and counting. When I write here, my life starts off more centered and there is a lot of space available in the day for magic. I feel more grateful and more able to handle the unexpected. When I don’t, the sludge of living slows me down. Thanks so much for creating the site.

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Got to a 900 day streak today. Woof. Nothing publishable, but it has been terrific for my sanity as well as my fluidity with words. Only 100 more days and I’ll get my flying squirrel badge!

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Gotta catch em all!

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Hi everyone,
750 words has got me really disciplined with my writing, I had been planning to write for a long time and now at least I get 750 words done everyday. I am working on my autobiography and getting ideas together with the daily writing session. I am currently on a 70 day streak and looking forward to my next badge. ;)

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Thank you so much for developing this site. It has been a “God send” for me and I have only been writing for 4 days. A great way to tap into the genius inside. Will share this with others!!!

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To start with, right-to-left alignment of the typing area. Ideally, either as a global per-user setting, or on a page-by-page basis (for bilingual/multilingual writers).

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I’m an indie author who has had inconsistent discipline. Mostly my problem has been getting bogged down in editing and obsessing over it. 750 words has given me an outlet to write something small every day when I’m engrossed in editing or otherwise. It’s instilled discipline in me and regularity in me that makes looking at my writing and doing my writing a habit that can’t be shaken.

I mean, I’VE STOPPED PLAYING MOST VIDEO GAMES. Nothing has done that to me before but this site. I can’t praise it enough for helping me make my hobby all the more ingrained in my life and my daily existence in a fundamental way.

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Badges are EVERYTHING! Seriously, they are fun and give me something to work towards (other than my awesome writing).

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Mysteriously, writing the sort of unstructured gibberish that is all that I can manage most mornings, reveals really good things, there for the taking, for which I can claim no responsibility. Thank you!

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750 Words is automatic flow, every day, for at least 10 minutes. It’s the first thing I think about doing every morning when I wake up. I sometimes type without even looking at the screen, just letting my mind wander. Helps clarify my thought. Thanks so much for such a wonderful service.

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Showing up each day makes such a difference. Helps clear the head and increase productivity regardless of what I’m writing about on the site. Thanks so much!

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A 1 Million word badge! Pretty pretty please?

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I love this site and for the last 47 days since I joined have completed my words every day. The site is a wonderful motivator.

I discovered the Metadata functionality late and find it useful to tag entries with a character list, a diary entry description or a story title. However I would love to be able to add or remove Metadata after the day is done. Sometimes I’ve forgotten to add the word in upper case or I’ve tagged a story with a title I’d now like to change. It would be great to update these entries in retrospect. Thanks.

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A million words. Sounds like one of those incredibly impossible goals. “Write a million words in X months!” Can one person even write that many words in a lifetime? And yet… and yet… I checked my stats and I’ve already passed a million. A million! So it CAN be done. A million words. Now, I’ve published a little: some nonfiction for the school and library market, a few academic papers. But there’s something about saying, “I’ve written ONE MILLION WORDS” that sounds far more amazing, far more like a HOLY CATS A REAL WRITER. Maybe because the difference between a writer and some one who only dreams of being a writer is the actual writing. I write. It’s a big deal. It’s who I am.

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A possibility to give each day a title would be awsom

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I love badges.

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There would be more than one place to write your daily words, making it easier for people working on more than one project. Perhaps it could be done in tabs within the “writing” page, and each day, you would need to open new tabs and name them accordingly (if you chose to use them at all that day.) This helps keep journaling words and story words separate in the metadata and word stats.

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I’m writing this note about two weeks past reaching 365 days of consecutive writing. just writing that sentence makes it feel more real, wow.

I started with 750words way back in 2013, when I found this site through a post on tumblr. I wrote for a day or two, then stopped because I thought it was too much trouble. I was a visual artist, not a writer, and I felt that doing daily writings would be pointless. fast forward to the end of my junior year of highschool where I decided to try 750words again, because it was summer and I had few responsibilities. now I am headed off to college in a few short months, and I’ve been writing the whole way through, and I hope I can stick with this habit through college and beyond.

I initially wanted to use 750words as a serious character development dump, with the hopes of being able to cobble together one of the stories floating around in my brain for years. it hasn’t quite panned out that way, but the mix of journaling and brainstorming I do in these pages has led to quite a few new ideas I wouldn’t have been able to think of otherwise, and I’ve been able to find out more about myself in the process as well.

thank you buster and kelliane, for giving a lazy highschooler a way to get themselves to build a good habit and accomplish something big.

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Ever since childhood, I’ve been attuned to writing. As I got older, I lost touch with that part of myself. But, this site has shown me, in a quantifiable way, that I can do this. It’s a beautiful thing, to write daily and commune with yourself, to plant creative seeds, to plan and to consider, to romp around in the endless mental expanse, and to be rewarded for it with silly badges. Thank you Buster and Kellian for a wonderful site and for the opportunity to engage with a part of myself I long thought abandoned.

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I hit a million words today. A million words! Wow. That’s a lot of typing on a lot of days.

Are my words great literature? What a ridiculous question. Are they maybe hack literature? No, they don’t even rise to that level.

So what are they? They’re mine. They are my thoughts, hopes, wishes, fears, all the stuff that rattles around in my head. On some days, the words fly out of my head and through my fingers and onto the screen. Some days, it’s a chore, I’m grinding the words out, and it’s something I just need to get done. On days like that, I’m typing with one eye on the words, and one on the count at the bottom of the screen. Some days, I’m writing for a pretend audience. Some days, most days, it’s only for me.

It’s complicated. No, it’s simple. It’s Zen. It’s not Zen. It’s discipline and chaos. It’s commitment and denial. It’s funny and serious. It’s me and not me. Who I am, and who I’m not, and who I’d rather be.

Yeah, they’re just words.

Thanks to Buster and Kelliane for making a place where I can write a million words.

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I love this site because it’s helping me get my novel out onto paper (so to speak) I’m currently at a 45 day streak and my pride in my streak is helping me write every day. This is a brilliant website and I am proud to be a member.

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I came, I wrote and I left. I was able to venture out and see what I was missing. I’m back and wanted to see how I can create and receive value in the world. Share what’s on my mind and create what I can. Be the inspiration I want to see in the world.
Enjoy the day, Smiles are free.

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I am loving being able to use 750 Words as a pre-writing journal! It’s so helpful to have a space to organize my thoughts and make a plan of attack for each session working on my WIP. And since I’m trying to beat the clock (I’ll get you cheetah badge!), the pressure to be perfect disappears. Love this site!

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I’m on a 208 day streak – in fact I have written every day since I found 750words. I have finally finished two books that I was working on for years, written countless journal entries trying to figure things out, plus articles and more. Nothing has ever kept me writing like this. Thank you!