The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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I’m four days to four hundred days of 750 words. I will celebrate by suggesting a badge for 750 days. Call it an infinity loopy and make it look like snoopy.

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1. It has to do with stats and language interpretation. Many members use more than one language, one of them being English. The system does not recognise them, unfortunately, and stats based on the interpretation of a non-English text don’t make any sense. We could have an option to mark each daily entry as written in English or in another language. It could be a little window on the writing page allowing to switch between languages. This window could be added to one’s page by editing custom settings.

2. Goals: Statistics again. Such as how fast you write. Some of us sit down to write more than once per day. So: often there is a break of several hours between writing sessions. This completely destroys our statistics as to the number of words per minute. This could be solved either by not including those long breaks in the statistics, or by allowing us to switch off some of the stats in accordance to our goal (switch off the words/min stat completely for a given user).
For example: my goal is not to write fast but to write a lot. A more advanced feature would allow us to set our own goals: For example: write a given amount of words in a month, etc.

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I made it to a million words! Woot! I wonder if I said anything?

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I am actually a professional artist who turned to painting as a student because my English teacher put so much energy into redlining my spelling that she forgot to tell me that I had a gift for writing. Now in my sixties after a successful art career I have rediscovered the joy of writing again. Thanks for the site and the energy I seem to be getting from the others writing everyday. It is so nice to realize that a writer writes. That’s the long and short of the job description.`

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Today= 750 × 750
I have written 750 words on 750 days. That’s pretty awesome. I love the brain dump that leaves me feeling clear. While all good habits are challenging to create – this one is so totally worth it. Don’t forget the other two basic tools of the Artist’s Way: the artist’s date and walking. Take your self on a two hour date (alone…no friends or husbands or pets) and do something to fill your well (bowling, see a movie, go to a play, visit a museum, color at the park, photography at the beach, buy stickers and stick them). Take your artist on a 20 minute walk each day and look around, notice the details, feel the breeze (it’s 85 degrees here in Southern California today…sorry to the rest of you experiencing cabin fever). I’d also recommend actually going through the Artist’s Way either alone or in a quad (4 people together). I did and I experienced recovery and discovery.

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I started using 750 words about a year ago, in fact in 10 days it will be my one year anniversary! YAY! What Buster and Kellianne have provided for us to use is fantastic, and they are fantastic people. Just the other day I had a question I needed answered because I noticed something was not the way I thought it was supposed to be; so I was looking for a simple answer. They responded by fixing the issue quickly and allowing me to be able to continue my writing. I love using this site and have had so many ah-ha’s and inspirations come from using it. I know that with the help of this site I can accomplish all of my dreams by having a place just to simply write. Thank you so very much for creating and upkeeping this site in the great form that it is in.

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I first started writing on this site in July 2010, made it 185 days, got sick one day in January 2011 and forgot to log in. I was so disheartened that I’d broken my 185 day streak that I wrote only sporadically for a few days, then didn’t log in again until October that year. By then, I was miles deep into an MFA program, and I stopped caring about breaking streaks or competing with others and myself. It became all about the writing, the practice of writing. If I missed a day, it didn’t matter, because I was studying writing, and all I did all day was write. The way I used this place changed. I do love the idea of the badges, the stats, the streaks. I feel accomplished when I realize that I type faster than the average bear, write more than the average donkey, am almost indistractable (is that a word?) once I get going. But what I really love about this site is that it feels like a safe place for me to come and dump off all the excess baggage that keeps me from doing my “work,” whether it’s the work for which I get paid or my own writing. Some days it’s harder to come here than others. But since I started writing here again Jan. 1, I’ve broken through some emotional/mental barriers, found topics for poems, worked on a novel in progress, figured out how to get healthier, recognized why I’m so sad, all while writing 750 words (that usually end up turning into 1,000) daily. I’ve started looking at the statistics in a different way, started using them to think about diction, about my moods (severely introverted lately – thank you Snowmagedon!). This is a great site. I have two cups of inspiration left. I’ll write more in a week. Thank you, Buster and Kellianne. You’re actually helping me to save my own life.

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I absolutely adore this website. It has given me a space to look at my life and to write what is in my head. I have recently started on a new bout of medication and this website has helped me to come to terms with that. It is the only website that I contribute to everyday, and will happily continue to contribute financially. Thank you so much.

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Today I have reached a personal milestone: I have written one million words since starting on this site over two years ago. And to celebrate this feat, I am donating ten cups of patronage to the site. The exercise has completely changed my sense of purpose. I now know that it is possible for me to become a creative writer. I could never have formed such a vision before I started on this site and now have a habit of doing it first thing after waking up. My typing skills are still rubbish but that doesn’t matter. I simply go through it at the end and correct all the typos. And this is what i have learned by this experience: form the habit of getting up early to do the page. That’s when the creative source is most readily accessed. And then, don’t stop at 750 words a day. Make a thousand words daily the minimum. It soon mounts up and before you realise it, you are soaring through the badges to Space Bird. As a famous statesman once counselled, “Never give up! Never, never, give up!”

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Just something on our page to let us know when the patronage expires so we know when to re-up—thank you!

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A 750 Day badge would be especially fitting! 750 days of writing 750 words :)

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I’ve never been able to maintain a decent streak.. and in fact haven’t been here in quite some time because I heard it was going paid and thought, surely for my infrequent needs I can just type somewhere else, right? Well. I haven’t been writing much and today had a urge, and came back, and dumped my brain. It felt so good, I feel so much better. And then I read that I have a free lifetime membership?! Amazing. Thank you!

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In the past, I always told myself that I would write everyday and put my ideas on paper, but I never did. 750words has helped me get my thoughts down, which in turn has made me feel more organized and sure of myself as a writer.
In the last month, I have written more than I have in the last year, thanks to this site.

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A phone app would be amazing! I can never seem to get the site to save my words right when I’m writing on 750 Words using my phone’s browser, and since I only use my phone to write when I’m in a “last minute, oh crap” situation, it just stresses me out. Plus, a mobile app would just be more elegant and could have more of the site’s features built in. I would even be totally okay with paying a one-time fee to buy the app. Less okay with a monthly fee because I tend to do 99% of my writing from my desktop, and it wouldn’t be worth it to pay monthly for an app subscription. If having a monthly 750 Words subscription got you the app free, though, that would be totally cool as well.

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More security is always better in my book! (and i know from personal experience that even the smallest sites get hacked)

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Day 800! I must make myself a badge for that one! 800 days. 750words has all the society, the accountability, the welcome, and the —well the words every day to keep me writing. Thank you!!

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please please please :)

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750 words has been a wonderful because it gives me feedback on what I have been thinking. It’s been surprising because it says I am an extrovert in my writing, but really I feel like an introvert!

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I’m a recovering control freak… at least, according to my experience here. The first few times I broke a streak were just plain horrible: I had failed, AGAIN!!!! A couple of months ago I broke a streak, shrugged, started to type without quite realizing that’s I’d forgotten something… COOL!

Definitely worth a few cups of patronage.

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Using this site on and off for the past few years has yielded several benefits:
1) I have become used to the fact that writing is part of a daily practice. It is a ritual for me that is no longer daunting.
2) I look forward to putting down whatever is swimming in my thought process. The best part is that the compartmentalization and self-editing controls are temporarily turned off for me!
3) My brain feels better—sometimes it’s hard for me to verbalize my thoughts in speech, but having a platform to come back everyday is very therapeutic.
Thanks so much!

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I write a bit of poetry as part of my daily writing. The line breaks (which are necessary in poetry) aren’t preserved in previous day’s pages. It would be great if they were preserved properly.

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750 is it. If there’s one thing that writers need, it’s a goal to shoot for, a deadline. Some writers do it for the week, some for the month, but whatever the goal, 750 makes us want to keep our fingers on the keys at least every day. A shout out to 750WORDS – one of the finer tools to home us in on our own motivation.

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750 Words has replaced a daily journaling habit I was struggling to implement in the first place. The stats, day-to-day tracking, and text-analysis really motivate me to get writing done each day. I enter little pieces of metadata every entry so I can look back on my moods. The little badges make a nice incentive too, I’d definitely like to see more of those – and of course an iOS/Android app. However, I’m more than happy with what we have now. Keep writing!

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As a productivity junky – I’m hooked on the stats – the metrics – oh the metrics. Then more analysis of thoughts and word counts – oh my! It’s what sets 750 Words apart and makes the difference between me writing or not writing. And isn’t that the point? Getting our hands out of our pockets and onto the keyboard to purge layers of mental clutter and mine for the really good stuff. BRAVO and well done! Keep up the great work. MBB

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I love the graphics of this website in general and the badges are amazingly cute! Why don’t you create a badge for negative or positive writers? or introvert/extrovert ones? or maybe for writers preoccupied with certain topics?

Even if you don’t do it, you’re still amazing. And your badges are great!

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Badges keep me going!

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750words has helped me get into a habit of writing everyday, no matter what i always make time to write something.