The Friends & Members of 750 Words

5 cups

I credit this site for getting me writing again after a dry spell of many years. I’ve now got a draft of a novel finished (big pieces of which I first drafted on this site) and I’m working with an agent on revising for publication. You bet I will be staying on with the pay version of the site. Thanks for this simple, useful, brilliant creative space.

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A dear friend of mine sent me the link to your site to encourage my writing. I freely admit that what I at first thought would wind up being something I picked up and forgot just as quickly has become an obsession. Your site has gotten me off my duff and back into writing every single day. The analytics are interesting, and have given me quite a bit of insight into my own creative processes. I am proud to be a patron here.

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Thank You Buster for creating this site!!
And Thank You to all of those who help you keep it going!

I have tried to write regularly off and on for 30 years, and never made it more than a few weeks, and most attempts didn’t even last a week.

However, in the last 3 months of writing on 750words, I have written almost every day!
Not only am I delighted about writing so much, I can see how it has affected other things. I have been struggling with the text on my website for 2 years, and never felt satisfied with it.
And last week, I sat down and in one day re-wrote every page, and I love it. The writing just flowed!

So very happy to be a monthly patron with 3 cups a month. What a gift!!!

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I have been backpacking for over a year now in an attempt to ‘find’ myself, and I was starting to worry that I hadn’t learned or discovered anything, but that was because I wasn’t keeping any sort of record or even attempting to think critically about my experiences. Writing daily on 750 words has really helped me get my thoughts in order and realise how much I have achieved and am achieving. Thank you so much – please keep the site up and running!

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Please look up 99designs.com they have access to thousands of designers that can make an app for $600!! I have used them for logo design and will be using them for an app soon too. It’s cost effective and you get so much choice and it is QUICK! Done in 7 days! I would pay for an app. I write on my iPad all the time. You should run this as a business. Your time is valuable, don’t sell yourself short…

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I am all for this becoming a pay site. It will only strengthen my motivation to write! I have been writing for only 5 months but it has changed my way of thinking and motivated me to do the only thing that I have really wanted to do for years.write.
Thank you 750.

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I found 750 in passing during NaNoWriMo as a suggested to back up on line. I threw a heap of words in and didn’t come back until 40 days ago when I realised what a wonderfu resource it is .

I mainly use this to clear my head of all the random and dull thoughts that accumulate and it is always fascinating to see patterns, links between seemingly isolated events and beliefs. The odd phrase or sentence even creeps in from time to time that I think I’ll revisit some time for something creative.

I am happy to pay the new amount, both as a commitment to myself that this is of value and also to try to help the family behind it. A new baby, job change and a move is an awful lot to deal with let alone keeping something like this going. Thanks. It is appreciated. I’m spreading the word wherever I can (English PR-type here.)

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Having been on this site for a month now, it’s become a crucial part of my day, and I really enjoy writing my ‘morning pages’ now, as supposed to them feeling like a chore. I love the feedback and the badges are great. I can’t wait to get my next badge!

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Like Buster I was inspired by the Artist’s Way morning pages, only writing by hand is cumbersome and I lasted barely a week. I find my fingers on a keyboard are quite capable of keeping up with my thoughts and writing daily has become a ritual. The benefits have been many including having a clearer mind. The most surprising one though is that I find myself half way through editing a novel that only came about because I entered the November challenge. Writing it has been a fun and absorbing experience even though it is only for my own use. The discipline of writing daily has helped my writing enormously the words flow quite easily now. Thank you Buster I do hope you keep the site going, it has such a good feel about it which is a reflection I believe of your utmost integrity.

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This site is amazing! I don’t know why those badges are so darn motivational, but wow. And who knew there was so much stuff in my head to write about? Now my “morning” (haha) pages have become one of my favorite things to do, and highly therapeutic to boot. I might just try NaNoWriMo now, who knows! Thank you!

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I just bought 12 cups and thought I’d use some to share; I have been on the site since January 15th. I had a rocky start, only getting two completed days in the first nine days. But the tenth day is when I started my streak. And today, February 15th, marks the 23rd day of that streak. Now, whenever I write, I always make sure I get over 750 words. This site has helped me write every day and actually keep up with it.

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One day I’ll be brave enough to join you.

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Storage isn’t free. Paper isn’t free. Ink isn’t free. Notebooks are not free. Electricity isn’t free, domain names are not free, servers and software and internet access isn’t free. That 750 words has been free so far has been an incredible gift of long-standing generosity, and asking users to pay a small amount to cover operating costs is completely reasonable. I say this as someone on a small fixed income who is going to have to re-budget to find the fees – but if I were ‘doing it for free on my own’ I would be buying my own paper journals or paying for my own computer equipment or something similar. It all adds up, but it is worth it.

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I used to snort at the emotional stats graph, thinking it was way off, that I was not feeling like that when I wrote that day—recently I started reflecting and found that, yes, it is totally accurate. Our words do reveal. I would never have come to see this and accept it without the big colored squares telling me what’s really happening. Just one more great things about 750words. Besides the badges……

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Writing here consistently for the past two years has changed my life. I’ve attempted keeping a journal of my daily thoughts and activities for years, but could never find the discipline – until 750 words. My day (and life) is not complete until I’ve emptied my mind and downloaded my thoughts here. Unfortunately, good things end, and not necessarily when one is expecting it. My income is miniscule and I cannot afford to continue my journey here. I wish there was another option, however, I am confident that this site has afforded me enough discipline to pursue my daily writing on my own. I am despondent at the thought of losing my best friend of two years, but I am grateful for the time we spent together. Thanks so much for being such an important part of who I am.

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Not necessarily more text analysis, but it would be cool to see changes in any of the statistics over time that are more detailed than just Recently, Your Avg, World Avg. Something like the metadata graphs.

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750 has become a must do of my day. I like just being able to spill things out without a care for anyone seeing it or monitoring my thoughts. I use it to gripe about things (including friends, politics, and my own foibles), I use it for to-do list and organizing my day, describing books, recalling memories—whatever. The writing has become so important that I can use it for a reward or a bribe to get other things done so I can sit down and “do my words.” Thank you for this wonderful site. I’m happy to pay to continue it—it’s a good habit and I don’t want to interrupt it.

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I am very grateful to 750 words. There are vicious cycles breaking in my life that wuld have been adamantine withoutthis. Thank you buster

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love this site! thrilled to have found it and been using it for a year now.

I still think a kickstarter-like campaign to keep 750words free for those who can’t pay (or haven’t yet discovered that it’s worth the money) would be awesome. I’d donate :)

Either way I’ll keep using.

-Chris

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Happy Valentine’s Day—to Buster, Kellianne,, and all the diverse writers on 750 Words! I love how much love is evident in all the grateful comments about the site. It’s obvious that you have enriched many lives, Buster, including mine. Though I only found the site recently, I’m on a healthy streak, and I’m really happy to begin paying $5 a month to support the site. $5 is much less than the price of a movie these days—and getting the opportunity to view the myriad machinations of my mind every day is priceless! Thanks so much. Peace and blessings.

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Well, to start off, I lost the February Challenge. I don’t feel bad, however. The flu and pink eye in both eyes can really ruin one’s day. That being said, I’m still going to honor my word (and did) and pay up.

Now for the positive. I have wanted to be a writer for years. I can remember reading a short story I’d written to my third grade class, and writing incessantly in notebooks up until about high school. My interest waned then due to that nasty little voice we all get in our heads-the one that says, “You’re not good enough.” Fast forward to college and work, and then it became, “I don’t have enough time.”

Now I have two babies (twins, who knew?) and I’m telling that voice, “When will I have the time if not for now? And I’ll get better by doing.” So, I joined the NaNoWriMo challenge. Failed that, but got 20,000 words in, which is by far the most I’ve ever managed to get written in a single story. It showed me I CAN do it. But NaNoWriMo comes but once a year? What to do? “Aaahh, Thwarted-san,” it whispered. “There is a site. 750words.com. Challenge yourself.” So here I am.

This site has really drawn writing to the front of my mind. It has added it to a list of things I have to check off my to-do list daily, and I love that. You know what else I love? The fact that as I write more, writing becomes easier. I had to open a new Yarny (check out yarny.me. Great free writing site that lets your organize your thoughts, characters, etc.) page just for the ten or so new ideas that came to my head, complete with characters, lore, and half-formed plot lines. Thank you 750 Words!

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I had been crawling along with my doctoral thesis until challenged to meet a deadline in four months time. 750 words has helped me become instantly more productive in churning the raw words that I can then revise at leisure. Suddenly I feel that 80K words is in reach and doable and that I am doing it!

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This site has been a saving grace and I am thankful for having tumblr-ed on to it.

It’s been exceedingly helpful as a writer and I plan on supporting the site as best as I can as the future goes onward.

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As someone who wants to take her writing more seriously, 750words has been invaluable to me. The challenge of keeping up a streak (let there be no unmarked boxes at the top of my writing page) and different ways to earn fun badges have been entertaining means to establish a habit. I’ve wanted for so long to write every day, but I struggled with crafting the self-discipline to do so on top of my all my other responsibilities. 750words has helped me find that discipline. I haven’t been using the site for long, but I have been using it consistently. Sometimes I work on my fiction, and sometimes I just use it as a diary; but either way, it keeps me writing and keeps the cobwebs from forming in my brain. Thank you so much for all you do.

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Buster, thank you. I have just passed my one year anniversary on this site and I feel so much clearer about myself and my life than I did a year ago. I am not sure how I feel about moving to a pay service, even though I’m a patron. I probably won’t. BUT if I close my account I’d like to know there is a way of destroying all of my past entries and erasing them from your servers. Because, I don’t know what decisions you might be forced to make in the future. Selling may be unthinkable now, but the world is changing. I have written so much about myself that the idea of abandoning it, and it suddenly being sold to some third party in a year, five years, when I’ve long forgotten about it, is frankly terrifying. Please help us protect all of our silly little secrets?

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Looks like I’ve won six cups from monthly challenges. I think I should just pass them on.

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how about a badge when we get to 750 days? 1000 days? Why no more badges after 500 days?