The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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thank you thank you for this site! the badges make me excited like the gold stars i always wanted to get from the nuns (those were few and far between) – funny how badges can motivate me! managed to keep up the writing during vacation! after 89 days, 750 words are starting to fly by – every day i work a little bit more on a story . again, thank you – can’t wait to start a fresh month tomorrow!

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This site gives me the excuse to say NO EXCUSES when it comes to writing! Even the people around me will back off and let me write if I haven’t done my words. I will happily donate as I go to keep it up, even if my membership is free!

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Always there when i needed to splerggg out words. Thank you.

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Like many others here, I’ve used this site off and on for a variety of purposes. There is definitely something to the 750 word thing….pushing myself to meet the goals has sometimes meant “saying” those words that are bumping around in my head, rather than stopping short. I couldn’t have done this if I didn’t know and trust that these words were (and always would be) completely private. While I haven’t enjoyed any records of great streaks, I’ve come to the safety and security of 750 Words to delve and drivel as needed. Everybody needs a safe place. :)

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Just signed up to pay $5 a month. I was assuming I would need to and then you changed your mind(s) again! But 750 Words is so worth it. I started almost a year ago and have loved writing so much. I appreciate the work you’ve done to create and maintain the site and still think this is a good deal. Good luck to you on all your other ventures.
Chris Marshall Hurni

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I am extremely glad to see that the changes that are coming up this May are both positive for those who have been with the site for awhile and those that are new to it. I have been on the site for two years now and due to financial decisions, would have had to quit using it if it went to pay site only.

The fact that there is now the option for a free lifetime membership for those who have had the account prior to this, is fantastic, and only encourages me to donate again when I get the chance. I appreciate this greatly and look forward to seeing how this will further grow the site. :)

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its been amasing. i love it more then google.

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I have been wanting to get back into writing morning pages for a long time now, but I have really gotten out of the practice of writing long hand. 750words has really changed that! I love that I can come on here and write. Next month I’ve signed up for Camp NaNo and I’m going to see if I’m able to write my 60,000 words on here and then move my daily writing over to Scrivener.

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I began 750 words 262 days ago. I have used this site to build the daily writing habit. The site is better than my journals of the past, because the website relentlessly reminds me to do my 750 words, and rewards me for making the effort. Sadly, I lost my streak to an incredibly busy day, a spotty memory, and life distractions, so I am starting anew. Thank you, 750 words, for your inspiration. I will continue to donate monthly even if I am a lifetime member.

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As a recent graduate 750 words has kept me writing outside of school for the first time in my life. I am about to finish my first short story after using 750 words for months and months writing simple journal entries working up to actual productive fiction writing. I feel I wouldn’t be where I am without it. I wish Buster and the whole 750 fam the best of luck. Thank you for the service you have provided.

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I’ve always been awful at keeping journals and have forgotten a lot of my own life. Something about the format of this site calls me to write often, and in addition to better understanding the contents of my own head, I have a record to look back on for the first time. At this turbulent time in my life, it has a lot of practical, as well as sentimental value.
Thank you for providing this service.

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I’ve used this site of a number of days to clear the garbage out of my head and give me space to actually think. To think and to feel properly. The words that this site enabled me to get out of my head stopped me from falling deeper into my depressive phases and pulled me out of them when I fell into them. Getting those feelings out somewhere helped immensely. This is what 750 did for me. Gave me somewhere to write out my head.

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Something between 30 and 100 maybe?

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I pay $6 a month to have my data backed up automatically and since I am a writer and my data is my creative work in the world, that’s pretty important. But no more important than 750 Words which provides me with a place to ponder my feelings and ideas, launch into new projects and get rewarded for writing (so few places that happens!). So I just signed up for the $5/month membership. Thanks for providing this option.

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Thank you for being a place I can come and say my piece, without censoring myself or without having to worry about the final form, or the audience. I write for my life, saying things to myself I haven’t been able to get at, after a lifetime of pleasing and disappearing. I am so grateful to have a place to come and do this.(and a scorecard which says, you wrote today!)
I am also grateful that you looked at the input and heard the feedback, and that I will be able to keep coming here— and make what contribution I can. Some of us are on the beginning of the career curve— some of us are on the other end and learning to live on less. Glad I won’t need to make a decision on this particular lifeline.
AND I love what you do to make 750words available to students. I would have delighted in finding my voice, earlier. now some more people can.
Thank you. thank you. thank you.

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I am coming up on completing two monthly challenges, which is more days in a row of writing that I’ve managed on my own in quite some time. I don’t know what it is exactly about this site, but it has done WONDERS for my productivity.

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I am so glad to know I can stay with 750words as I head towards my 2nd Year Badge….thanks for a great writing site with stats that are fun!!

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Thank you for producing a transition to a paid site with grace and generosity. Much appreciated.

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I’m glad that there are firm plans for 750 words moving forward. My daily discipline suffered or I allowed it too from the uncertainty of what would happen, but I am getting back up on the horse with the challenge for April. Thank you!

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I love the new picture of you with your family, Buster. And I’m thrilled that you can see in vivid detail in all these notes the incredible joy that you have brought to so, so many people through this site. I happily add my thanks as well.

I am grateful to you for the inspiration, the technical brilliance and the time and effort that it took to envision, build and maintain this site—and now for your generosity in graciously continuing to provide it for free for those who are already receiving the benefits of it. The world is a better place because this deceptively simple, and so creative site exists.

Peace and blessings to you and Kellianne and Niko as well..

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This site has been an amazing resource for the last few years. I’ve cleared out a lot of daily mental debris (I’m a night bat writer), written blog posts and other articles that I might have put off otherwise, finished 2 NaNoWriMos here, and found I’ve moved from thinking about streaks and badges for my daily internal nudge to realizing how essential daily writing is for me. Thank you very much for sharing this experience with us, Buster and Kellianne. I am happy to be a patron now and will continue to be donor as a lifetime member.

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I am so greatful to you all for letting existing members be grandfathered in. I joined i think 2-3 years ago and it has been some rough moments in this time frame. I am so very thankful that my dear friend introduced me to this site and it has truly been a blessing to pour out my thought, clear my head, verbalize anger and frustration and then to celebrate, shout out the goodness of my blessings, and then to still get new ideas down and new realizations about myself and others and look at different careers and all that it has allowed me to just dump out of my brain. I feel like i just rambled but that is what this site allows me to do and I am like i said GREATFUL. I will also donate as I can as I can coming out of the wilderness of some crazy financial things and will be able to flow and be a blessing to this site financially in the near future!!!!!! Thx Buster and Kellianne:):)

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750Words has been a wonderful influence on my life. It gives a permanent, private home to the thoughts that constantly bounce around my brain. It has contributed to my mental well-being and given me a sense of peace that I don’t think I could have found otherwise.

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750words has become the backbone of my day. I always feel much better when I write and whenever I am confused about what I am doing or stuck or something or in a bad mood, if I come to 750words and start writing about what is going on, what I’m feeling or thinking I feel better and something usually comes up as the next thing to do.
I use it when there is a lot of drama to process, and when I have some big idea that I want to explore.
And I use it to keep track of my daily habits

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I have a friend who would’ve had to quit the site (she loves it, but can’t justify spending the money right now), and while I ultimately decided to pay I thought of her when I saw the new announcement… I’m so glad. <3 She’s thrilled, of course, as we all seem to be.

xoxo

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750 words has help me become a more focused and productive writer. I have been struggling to create a new habit in some other digital writing environment that could approximate what I found here. Thank you so much for granting lifetime memberships. There is just nothing else that works like what you have built here and I will donate as I can.

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Thank you for this site and your dedication to it, through your life changes (baby, moving, new job!) Though I qualify as a lifetime member I will keep donating.

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Thank you for giving us a place to experiment, grapple, and purge in private. I’m grateful for that, beyond words.

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I love this site and could not imagine living without it. Thank you, Buster & Kellianne, for your generosity in offering lifetime membership to existing users. I will continue donating as a token of appreciation for the good wills that I have witnessed on this site.

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You guys are awesome. Thanks for the lifetime membership, what an inspiration. I am impressed by your generous solution and will be happy to keep paying for the site anyway.