The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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So, it’s funny. I was writing every single morning, really keeping to this morning schedule, and finding myself more and more calm and clear headed and then one day almost two weeks ago, poof! I just forgot about logging in and writing. I broke my 64 day streak and was turned back into an egg. I then went another 7 days without logging in and writing but somehow, that still felt ok. I am proud to be an egg again. I can’t wait to see what I will hatch into!

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I’m pouring my whole six cups of delicious patronage into this note to commemorate the breaking of my almost 500 day streak.
Don’t worry though. I missed yesterday so I’ll just write twice today.

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Using 750 words as a journal has helped me introspect on my inner feelings and emotions. It’s intensely relieving to have a private place to pour out my soul every day, as it releases bottled up tension. As a result, I feel more tranquil and have less stress in my life. 750 words has also helped me discover my passion for writing fiction. It helps immensely with motivating me to finish my stories. Overall, 750 words is a wonderful website. I’m going to keep using it for as long as I can.

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My first idiom is Spanish. I challenged myself to write blog posts in English so that my thoughts can reach more people.

750 words help me exercising my writting skills. Taking the one month challenge help me getting into the mood and getting confidence to write in a whole diferente language.

Now, I am writting posts in English and planning to participate again in the monthly challenge, soon.

Thanks for this awesome site, Buster!

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Under [this month]‘s Statistics, add another bullet that’s a running tally of all of the time spent writing for the month. Annual statistics should also use a similar tally so that writers can see how much (or little) of their time is actually spent writing in the grand scheme of things (example: 1,000 hours per year). Perhaps those writers who write 100 hours in one month or 1,000 hours in one year will get a special badge.

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I just reached 365 days and earned my Pegasus badge! I’m so excited to have reached this milestone and can’t believe it’s really been a year that I’ve kept up with writing every day. It’s shown me that I am capable of forming and keeping good habits and working toward a long term goal. I’m looking forward to becoming a Space Bird, and I’d like something to reach for after 500 days. A 750 badge would be perfect!

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Was zipping along on a streak of over 200 days and on Friday just missed a day. The routine changed and I missed it and didn’t realize it until today.
That is a good thing. It makes me think about how important this process has been and how grateful I am that Buster and Kellianne have created and nurtured this wonderful space that feels like it was made just for me.

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Writing the daily words unclutters my mind.

After more than 5 months of daily writing my life and mind feels more stable. These days I look more into the now and near future than into the past. Things seem much more clear.

What a great habit! The site does it’s job, being simple and stable enough – but there are some things I’d love to see improved to keep me paying the monthly fee…there’s not so much extra features compared to the old pen and paper approach, especially if you’re writing in a language other than English.

Thanks!

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Also surprise badges that are not listed. I’d love to see an unexpected badge appear after some more or less obvious milestone.

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Although it doesn’t show to the users, I think it’s still the most important thing.

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I just came back after over a year of not writing, and three days in I’m certain it was a good idea.

I’m glad this exists.

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I just completed 200 consecutive days of inspired writing! I’m so excited. I love and appreciate 750words so much. Writing here on a daily basis has helped me to sort out my thoughts and to heal old wounds. Thank you and bless your hearts!💖💖💖💖

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I’m interested in seeing if the bar graphs for emotions and concerns could be changed into a cool pie chart like you have for the today stats! I really like the pie charts and I feel like I get a better at-a-glance view of my emotions and concerns with them. The bar graphs are somehow less informative to me.

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I discovered during National Novel Writing month that if I wrote my words for the day and then used my 750 words to brainstorm, I never had dry spells where I couldn’t think of anything to write. I’ve used 750 ever since to brainstorm for my writing (as well as to complain about my day and generally rant). I don’t do “morning pages,” more like “winding down the day” pages.

I’d also like to thank Kellianne for fixing my streak when I was so busy finishing a story (yes, I was writing) that I forgot to log into 750 until after my deadline. I kept going—after all, why stop doing something that has been so very useful to me?—but was sad to have lost a 400+ day streak. Thanks, Buster and Kellianne, for making this available to us all.

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After 186 days (where I could just taste moving to the next level), my brain decided to let me miss a day. Sometimes I think I share my head with another person. Sometimes that person is benevolent, other times they seem either neutral or malevolent. So I spent some time evaluating my whole reason for doing the daily writings. I raged against that blank spot on my calendar, that blemish that will never go away, my relationship with perfection. It’s not easy to admit that there is truth outside of myself, that I don’t have everything all together, that I’m not always in control of things. Life smacked me again. I could quit or move on. I decided to move on, put that little bit of reality into my back of tricks and realize I still have a lot to learn about myself. Some of it won’t be pretty, but it’s still me. And I think I’m okay with that.

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I would like to change my font based on the type of mood that I’m in. Bradly Hand when I’m feeling normal, Joker when I’m a little edgy, and French Script when I’m feeling fancy. Stuff like that. It would require you to have a font pull-down menu on each day page. I don’t know how that could be managed.

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Many of us are Space Birds. We need more badges.
A badge for a million words. A badge for a thousand days. c’mon Buster you can make up more badges.

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Many of us are Space Birds. We need more badges.
A badge for a million words. A badge for a thousand days. c’mon Buster you can make up more badges.

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Badges are incredibly motivating for me. I’d love something between the desert of 30 and 100 days.

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750 words is what’s going to guarantee I finish my PhD. Thank you, from the bottom of my awkward, scholarly heart.

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I sometimes write in Afrikaans, and then the text analysis means nothing. I wonder if one could push it through Google translate and get some text analysis from that?

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I have written a lot of words here. I don’t think it means much, those words, in their content, but it has made me a better typist, and I write much easier. Emails has become a breeze.

But the other day, while I was writing my words, a vision statement I have been thinking about for my new business, just popped you. Like newborn baby it’s not cute or accomplished, but it’s now in the world.

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I love this tool, and I want to see more of it. Right now, some of the analyses are lackluster, but it has a lot of potential!

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I am a space bird. :) Today I finished my 502 day in a row and even though I hit that mark two days ago I still couldn’t break the habit. I’m heading off to bed now that I’m done.

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I’d love an app for 750 Words, but an android version as well as iPhone. There are a lot of times when I’m out and about and thoughts come to me and it’s difficult to see the website on my phone. I’m addicted to 750 Words and I want to have it on me at all times! :)

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I was just wondering how to “follow” other people. Or wondering if I should make my writing public for other people to follow.

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I love 750words. It inspires me so much and gets me out of a bad mood if I wake up grumpy. It’[s also nice to have that sense of achievement. Getting it all out of your head no matter how crazy it is is so very healthy. Thank you for this site.

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I have used today’s 750 words to draft this testimonial. A career assessment just called me a rabbit, as I am extremely cautious and can be afraid to start new things. The blank page can be a fearsome foe to the overly cautious. Indeed, it was only shockingly recently that I realized that I could write words I was not sure about on paper! This “thinking through writing” people talk about happens when words are used for reflection and exploration—and sometimes the truth of ideas is revealed by saying the wrong thing first. (Imagine that!) So, 750 Words is an amazing tool: it helps me get started writing something—anything—without going back to erase what I just wrote (because I need to rack up more words!). I write out everything that comes to mind, regardless of relevance or truth; if I’m doing this as part of a writing project, I then save everything in another file and take the axe to it there. This site is the haven that welcomes any words that come to mind—be they monstrous, preposterous, or nonsense—because they all help get to 750. Thank you, Buster and Kellianne, for making this site available!