The Friends & Members of 750 Words

750 Words exists because of mutual good will between the people that run this site (Buster & Kellianne) and the people who use it (you). The site wouldn't exist without the generosity, patience, and humor of everyone involved. For the first 3+ years that the site was running (Dec 2009 to May 2013), the site was free to use but with some encouragement to donate. That served us well (and most importantly, generated enough income to keep the site up), but as the site grew the need for support also grew.

On June 12th 2013, all existing users of the site were given lifetime free accounts (we hope you'll continue to donate when you can). New accounts created after June 12th, 2013 are now required to become members within 30 days after signing up in order to keep writing. Everyone will always have access to previous writings, stats, etc, even if they choose not to become members.

We're listening to your feedback and want to make sure that first and foremost, we offer a friendly and safe place for people to dump their private thoughts. I expect that we'll continue to adjust the way this all works for the near term. Thanks for being an awesome community!

Who runs this site?

Our names are Buster and Kellianne, we live in Berkeley, California with our two sons (Niko and Louie) and this is something we've built and run in our spare time.

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Notes of inspiration from members

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KISS

Keep it simple, sweetie.

Testimonial Note from mkpladsen on Sat, Dec 07
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Have really enjoyed this site. Use it in the morning to help me get my thoughts in the right direction. I get to finish out thoughts in my head that otherwise would remain fragments that just fly by.

Testimonial Note from Anonymous on Sat, Dec 07
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I love 750words. It’s unobtrusive and yet encouraging enought to help me write every day, and writing every day turned to be an awesome thing. I use it as a therapy tool and as a writing-for-fun challenge and as a sure road around any obstacles. Just a fact of sitting down every day and concentrating on my words, these fifteen minutes that’re for me and me alone, done wonders for my overall well-being.
Long live 750words!

Testimonial Note from egelantier on Fri, Dec 06
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750words is awesome, even after a break of 6 months. That beeing said, I’d love to see that 750words is evolving rather than feeling like riding in that sweet, sweet oldtimer which has to be constantly fixed to hinder it from breaking apart. Don’t know if you have the ressources, but some fresh in here would be terrific.

Testimonial Note from Anonymous on Thu, Dec 05
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More badges for accomplishments

I think there should be a badge for 500,000 and 1 million words. Nowhere near those goals, but it would be nice to have them.

New Feature Vote from Emily Trunko on Thu, Dec 05
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Thank you 750words.com blessings to the innovative creators of this amazing site and blessings to the beautiful people that are part of this community. God bless you all! and keep using your God given Gifts!!!!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS:)

Testimonial Note from DanniDanDanHuang on Wed, Dec 04
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I used to write my Morning Pages by hand. Now that I’m doing it online, I’m finding I do it faster, and I feel like I’m more motivated to do them – it’s more convenient for sure. One month in, and I’m feeling inspiration growing and clarity returning.

Testimonial Note from Dom Tsui on Tue, Dec 03
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I have been able to write several novels and short stories because I have started them with a clear mind. I have taken the detritus of my day and spewed it over characters and turned them into interesting people that I can finally relate to. it’s been exciting and healing to come here and reduce the attic stuffing. thanks.
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Testimonial Note from melanie hamilton on Tue, Dec 03
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With 750words.com – I’m writing and making progress in my academic work.
Without 750words.com – I’m procrastinating.

Thanks so much for the site!
Love the badges!

One Month Challenge Bounty from Jackie McG on Tue, Dec 03
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Thanks for this awesome site

One Month Challenge Bounty from SMD on Tue, Dec 03
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I have always had a huge problem with discipline, enthusiasm, and motivation, but 750words is slowly helping me with it. Sure, it’s taken since April to get me to an 80+ day streak, but I’m amazed that it’s happening at all. This website has been a godsend. It’s proven to be the perfect format for dumping all my thoughts, personal or creative, and keeping them perfectly private.

I love 750Words!

Testimonial Note from Muadhnait on Mon, Dec 02
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I’m thrilled to get my NaNo today. I didn’t sign up for the NaNoWriMo because I write nonfiction. But I did it here—over 52,000 words in one month. I had no clue that I could do that when I started on this site some 317 days ago. Getting into the flow of daily writing works wonders. Thanks again and again Buster and Kellianne.

Testimonial Note from Bhavani on Sun, Dec 01
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I have yet to complete a monthly challenge, but I admire those of you that have! And those that have done even more! Keep up the good writing!!!

One Month Challenge Bounty from Dawn W on Sun, Dec 01
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More badges for accomplishments

I find the badges super encouraging and motivating. It’d be nice if there was more for the days in the row in between the 30, 100, 200, 365, 500 day ones.

New Feature Vote from Kathleen Rose on Sun, Dec 01
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Yesterday I got my Pegasus badge. I’ve been on a streak for 365 days. I started last year on this day with the plan to see if I could write for a month. December ended and I met my goal. I asked myself, why stop? So I didn’t. I just kept writing, always aiming for completing another month. Soon I realized I didn’t ever have to stop. Here’s to hoping I’ll be here to post about getting that Space Bird.

Testimonial Note from Clara Miller on Sun, Dec 01
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It is true to say that this site has changed my life. There are things I can do now that I would not have considered possible two years ago when I started. For instance, I now write every morning and regularly write a thousand words each time. I have just completed the NaNoWriMo challenge for November through writing on the site. I am also less than a calender month away from hitting a five hundred day sequence that will give me the Space Bird badge. The crazy thing is that it really matters! Finally, in ten weeks time if I continue writing every day at the current level, I shall hit a million words written since I joined this page. So a lot has happened that I could not have foreseen when i started back in 2011 and I can now realistically consider the possibility of making my living from my writing. Thank you Buster and Kellianne for this amazing service.

One Month Challenge Bounty from Warwick Paul Onyeama on Sun, Dec 01
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Wonderful site. After getting 100,000 words for NaNoWriMo, I came here November 30th, and already it has impacted me so much that I signed up for the December challenge, have wrote over 5,000 words today, and become a patron. I am recommending this site to all my NaNo writing buddies!

Testimonial Note from Emily Trunko on Sun, Dec 01
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A great place that I use to write essays, express my inner thoughts, and occasionally fiction. It is great to see the sorts of themes/subject that run within each of these categories once the writing is done for the day.

Testimonial Note from Jamie Thompson-Matthews on Sun, Dec 01
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After two years here, I can say that this is a wonderful site that helps writing immensely. The writing habit is a good one to have, and nothing helps as much as 750words.com.

Testimonial Note from M. Bluth on Sun, Dec 01
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I am so grateful that this site has inspired me to write every single day. I’m on a 450 day streak and I’m very proud of that. Every once in a while, I get an inspiration from writing here. It’s all good.

Testimonial Note from Michael Wayne Cole on Sun, Dec 01
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Thank you for 750 Words! I have been here since June 2012 but have done very little. A friend encouraged me to sign up for NaNoWriMo and so I did and failed miserably – managed to post 528 words before freaking out and running around screaming, aagh, aagh, I can’t do this!! Then I took a deep breath and even though I had not written on 750 words for quite some time Buster was still kind enough to send me an occasional nudge via e-mail. So, what the heck I decided to give 750 words a whirl, again. Even patronned-up! Now I am on a streak and psyched for the December challenge. I am learning so much about what works for me as a “writer” and hope that next year I will take up the NaNoWriMo challenge and succeed. If I do it will because of 750 words.

Testimonial Note from Anonymous on Sun, Dec 01
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Love this site, so glad I found it, this is where I do my morning pages.

Testimonial Note from Anonymous on Sun, Dec 01
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Love this site!

Testimonial Note from Jennifer Turrell on Sat, Nov 30
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Get off your hand asses (those are the heels of your palm), and type something loquacious!

One Month Challenge Bounty from Eric Nentrup on Sat, Nov 30
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More text analysis

Help me use 750words.com in the classroom. FYI…just ask me to help. Help me, help you. Help me, help you!

New Feature Vote from Eric Nentrup on Sat, Nov 30
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What can I say? I’m less than 24 hours into my completion of my first ever attempt at writing a novel, thanks to NaNoWriMo.org, but after hearing all the sob stories from those who came up shy or—tragically—got halfway into the 50K word challenge and bonked.

It was a dedicated effort, I kid you not, but winning was WAY within reason for me, and I have figured out why.

Kellianne and Buster have given me wings. You two are my RedBull. Sure, I can give a few cups of patronage to the brilliant Julia Cameron, but what’s she done for me lately? The honor, gratitude, and full respect for my 50K piece of shit first draft of a first novel goes to you two, The Bensons.

In all seriousness, I am convinced that it is the discipline accomplishable best for me on YOUR site that has made achieving this feat a possibility. You’ve given me FLOW. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi would raise a glass to you as would I.

Thank you for this gift and I hope to use it for good. Whether in the day job as a passionate English teacher, hoping to create a writing life for some of Indianapolis’s most under-served kids, or in the evening, chunking out swill that some damn publisher might want to put into circulation, your work has made my work…well….WORK.

Thanks for making me WORK!

Eric

Testimonial Note from Eric Nentrup on Sat, Nov 30
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What can I say? I’m less than 24 hours into my completion of my first ever attempt at writing a novel, thanks to NaNoWriMo.org, but after hearing all the sob stories from those who came up shy or—tragically—got halfway into the 50K word challenge and bonked.

It was a dedicated effort, I kid you not, but winning was WAY within reason for me, and I have figured out why.

Kellianne and Buster have given me wings. You two are my RedBull. Sure, I can give a few cups of patronage to the brilliant Julia Cameron, but what’s she done for me lately? The honor, gratitude, and full respect for my 50K piece of shit first draft of a first novel goes to you two, The Bensons.

In all seriousness, I am convinced that it is the discipline accomplishable best for me on YOUR site that has made achieving this feat a possibility. You’ve given me FLOW. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi would raise a glass to you as would I.

Thank you for this gift and I hope to use it for good. Whether in the day job as a passionate English teacher, hoping to create a writing life for some of Indianapolis’s most under-served kids, or in the evening, chunking out swill that some damn publisher might want to put into circulation, your work has made my work…well….WORK.

Thanks for making me WORK!

Eric

Testimonial Note from Eric Nentrup on Sat, Nov 30
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I have written for 55 days here since I started. Today, I completed the November challenge. More significantly, I also wrote a novel this month. I reached 50,000 words in three weeks. I had heard of NaNoWriMo before I found this site, but like many others my response was “Pshaw! Me? Write a novel in thirty days?” And yet I have. As I wrote the climax of my novel, I bawled right along with my characters at the tragedy that transpired. I have over sixty thousand words to print out today before I head to the final write-in for NaNo so that I can start the editing process on my manuscript. Wow! I’m a writer. And I really feel like one now, too. It all started here. This daily habit — whether I wrote nonsense, or a post for my blog, or an excerpt from my novel — this habit is what got me on the write track. No matter how you spell it. Thanks for the inspiration!

Testimonial Note from Tracy Cassidy on Sat, Nov 30
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I originally wanted to use 750words to help write my book, but now I’m just writing about any and everything. I use writing prompts from difference websites and let my mind melt onto the keyboard, and before I know it I have 750 words! Being able to see the “meta-conscious” of my writing is fun, and something I always look forward to viewing after the day is over. :) My goal is to continue using 750words every day so that next year I can finally win NaNoWriMo!

Testimonial Note from Jason McConnell on Fri, Nov 29
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Eleven PM every night is mine to indulge myself in seven hundred and fifty words at the keyboard. This year an hour, next year a book.

One Month Challenge Bounty from Sharon Campbell on Fri, Nov 29