The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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To compensate for those who complete the monthly writing challenge they get one month of not having to pay the $5 fee.

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I love to write, but perfectionism was killing me. I’d write a sentence, edit. Write a second, edit both. Write another and see how it ALL sounded. Productivity sucked. Deadlines blown. Despair.

Then a friend introduced 750 words. I typed fast and furious with no edits at all. When I read what I’d written, it made sense. Still needed an edit, but I sped up considerably and gained self-confidence. One block gone.

Then I tried a brain trick. I’d been obsessed with frequently checking word count and time left until 30 minutes was up. I was focusing on “words accumulated.” I changed. I shifted my focus to “words spent”, as though I ONLY had 750 words to spend rather than piling up the words. This change in self-talk broke block number two.

Thanks 750 words. My speed and accuracy are much better and I’m meeting my deadlines again.

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I started on my novel a year ago. Near the beginning half, I had my eye on the end product, but it turns out I wasn’t pushing myself hard enough.
I tried to work harder, but it became really difficult with all the things in life.
Then, I discovered 750 words, while on the internet looking for inspiration. This is just what I needed. It has a great, positive interface and was simple and straight to the point. I became determined to write at least a thousand words everyday, and now my novel is past 200 pages— and that was all from two months. It is purely amazing.
Now, when the day fades (I’m a true night owl), I get my laptop out and start writing. Part of me is under the pressure of missing a day and breaking the streak, but it’s that good kind of thrill. An excitement, really.
Thank you so much for helping me to build my talent even more.

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I’m pretty impressed with 750words.com’s elegance. I’m no power user but 50,000+ words in 50+ straight days is a first for me. Thanks.

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750words has been great these last two years I’ve been writing. I’ve been happy to write everyday for the last 2 years and look forward to many more years to come. It’s one place when I can freely say whatever want and really helps relieve stress. I also feel like I’ve become a better writer as a result.

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I tried to make the sight give me a x-rating. The first risque story got me a PG-13 rating. The next time, I wrote hard-core porn in order to see what it took to get me an X-rating: it gave me a R rating instead. Then I went back and put every expletive I could think of and sexual act possible into the story: it gave me a NC-17. There should be an accompany badge, too, for the X-rating -maybe a raccoon or something.

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Now that I received my horse badge, I do not think that I will be getting another badge for a while. I want to put it out right here, I DO IT FOR THE BADGES. I feel like some weird Boy Scout, and I want to start pinning these things on a sash to wear around town.

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I EARNED THE HORSE OF AWESOMENESS! YES!

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I would like to have the text analysis in other languages, because I write in spanish and I’d like to have real stats there. For example, when I write “sin” (without) it thinks I talk about sins, but that’s wrong. It would be nice I think.

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I really like the stats that it displays after you’ve finished writing your words. While I’m sometimes surprised by what they are, they’re a great way to get an idea of what’s on your mind.

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This site has encouraged and challenged me to put my thoughts and ideas in written form. I just finished the January challenge and so glad that I did.

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I love 750 Words. I haven’t been giving it as much attention as I used to due to a combination of illness and burn out, and I can’t wait to get back to it again. Being able to write every day is such a help to me as a Writing student and I need to get back on the horse. It’s worth it.

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I am so in love with this site, and I had to donate towards it today, celebrating all the x-es in January. It was a very tough month for me, but I kept writing, I kept typing, I kept emptying my mind so I could make my days more joyful. Thank you for creating this site, I am forever grateful!

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I am now in no-mans land between 30 and 100. I know I don’t write to earn badges, but they are so much fun to work towards (said the one who keeps missing the hamster because she’s easily distracted)

I have just earned my turquoise horse badge and can’t wait to see it on my page!

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I am a professional writer and novelist but have often struggled with the daily discipline of my craft. 750 words has allowed me to develop a better and more consistent writing practice.

I have just earned my Turquoise Horse Badge and am waiting for it to show up on my stats wall. 750 words has helped me grow by encouraging me to write every day with fun rewards and challenges!

Thank you!

Snowy

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because some of the 750 words pop into our heads at such strange times… not lap top times :)

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please please please! :)

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OK, so maybe Edward Snowden has taught us that nothing online is really secure anymore. If the NSA wants to read our daily scribblings, they will. I realize the “secure” is only relative. But at present I feel that my only protection is in numbers. 750 Words is one of millions of websites, and I am one of hundreds of 750 Words users. So I’m probably safe from random snoops just because there are so many other potential targets out there.

It’s as if I were to keep my private journal in a bound volume that I hide on a high shelf in a room full of uncataloged books at, say, the Library of Congress. Most likely, no one will ever lay hands on that diary except me. But the odds would be much more in my favor if I could keep that diary in a locked cabinet rather than an open shelf. Maybe there are some skeleton key holders out there who can’t be stopped, but that’s no reason not to use a lock when you want privacy.

Please give us a locked cabinet.

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Last sunday, January 26th at 8:55 pm (or 20:55 here in Germany) my mother past away. Cancer.

Her fight lasted three years. Chemotherapy after Chemotherapy. Multiple bone marrow transplantations. Up to over 50 different pills a day. Everytime I’ve got a call, my heart nearly stopped, because I always feared it would be bad news. Well, the bad news came, in the end.

Point is, it has been three years of constantly beeing on edge. Thoughts, hopes and fears never stopping. So I wrote it all down. Got it out of my mind. If it hadn’t been for this side, I would have gone mad.

And now, that she’s gone, my daily writing routine works as an anker. When I opened this site monday morning, the first day without her, I realized how good it felt, that at least something’s staying the same. Opening this site in the morning and start writing. It is really soothing and gives me a kind of security and normality. It’s just one of those little things, that, besides beeing ‘just a website’ really helps and makes a difference.

First I wrote about my mother, now I write for her. To her. And to have the opportunity to do so, here, on this site, is something, I can’t thank you enough.

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I find writing a journal almost as mind calming as meditating, and with this I get to look back on all the thoughts and feelings I was having a year ago. The option to download a copy of all that you’ve written feels pretty inspired to me, so thank you so much for including that!

I have found it incredibly helpful for organising my thoughts clearing my head and stimulating the writing glands (which are totally a thing).

Happy writing to you all!

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I cosign the idea that the badges should be repeated when you achieve a target for the nth time, and then the iterations saved.

It’s kind of demoralising knowing how far away my next badge is? I like to get my shiny sticker for effort!

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So, after a streak of 448 days of writing, I missed yesterday due to an unusual routine. And this morning, there was no freaking out, no beating myself up. Just an acknowledgement of the skip, a wry chuckle, and getting back to writing. Writing daily has become a part of my world, thanks to this site. Of course I’d like to continue my streak past 448 this time, but I’ve come to see that writing is it’s own reward, streak or no streak. Thanks to all!

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I’ve created a good habit of writing every day for more than 500 days. This has led me to create other good habits. I’m grateful for the order this has brought to my life. Great website.

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I started writing the last day of year 2013. That day I wrote about being sad that I cant make any New Years decisions like others and for me new year never seem to be a new possibility. But what happened? Some how I managed to keep the routine of writing almost everyday. And then I started to have more faith in myself and my ability to decide something and do it. One routine helped me to create others and now I´m enjoying sports 3 times per week, I have been able to work more and relax when i´m not working. I haven´t been eating candy in tree weeks and today I even created a morning routine. I couldn´t be more happier and more exited about the power of 750 words per day!

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Just a word of thanks for being here. My internet connection was down for a while today and I found myself wondering if the library was still open, and if not, whose internet I could use to get my words to you. _~~ I’m a grandfathered in member but I give you some money from time to time. I hope you’re doing well enough financially. I love the advertizing free, simple writing page. I’d rather not have formatting options myself because I’d rather just write here and not worry about how it looks. _~~ Thanks again.

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I don’t really know if you need MORE badges… rather, more celebration for achieving badges… and also a list of the number of times you’ve achieved each badge (rather than only the first time you achieved it). Like the early bird and hamster badge – shouldn’t you get this EVERY time that you write 10 days in a row before 7am and are undistracted, respectively? It would be great to actually show this.

AND right now the badges just mysteriously appear at the top of your stats… they should ANNOUNCE themselves somehow – so that getting them is more of a big deal. Would also be great to show them on the ’today’s writers’ page… don’t know if they’d fit there, but that would be pretty cool too!

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It’s amazing to me the power of daily writing. And 750 words makes it so much more interesting – with community, statistics, and badges. I’m not sure if I would write with nearly the consistency without this site. I’ve referred so many people to this, who I hope are all users too. Thank you so much for this little gem!