The Friends & Members of 750 Words

After many starts and stops, today was Day 100! My previous record is 106, and a week from today I should be past that hurdle and on my way to 200. But the thing I have come to appreciate about writing here is that today—TODAY—I wrote. And that is enough.

Sometimes I think “I don’t have 750 words to write today,” but I power through and discover I always have 750 words to say. It’s kind of amazing and a testament to this website.

I have completed 2 months of challenge and on 77th day streak – on my way to 100 days of writing at least 750 words. I hope I can get the 100 day badge before having to pay for this site. sigh

Finally, I have gotten back up to over 100 days in my streak. I love this site. I don’t want it to end of change. I hope that the coming changes will be smooth and that we can all keep on writing. Thank you Buster for doing this for so long!

just want to thank Buster and Mario and everyone else involved in 750 words for all the great work that you do. and i am very grateful to know that I can subscribe on a monthly or yearly basis to keep 750 words going. having this site available to me has been a Godsend. thank you. thank you. thank you.

thanks for all that you do Buster Benson.

More badges for accomplishments

The badges are a great feature! I’d love more streak badges. I got to 30 days, and saw I’d have to make it a full year to get another. Maybe a badge for each month up to 6 would be cool.

I filled notebooks galore with my angst-filled Morning Pages… until my kids learned how to read. I told them several times that if I died suddenly, my current notebook should be burned and never read. 750 Words solves my privacy issue in a wonderful way, and also makes it a fun challenge to get to the words every day. I’ve recommended 750words several times on Google+, and always come across other users who enjoy comparing stats and moods. I love this site! Thanks for developing it!

I’ve gone from being a writer to talks about writing to a writer who writes. Thank you!

More badges for accomplishments

A badge for those who manage to squeeze all our writing in between pressing and frequent distractions. I vote on calling it the Meercat

I’m discovering I love to write!

Write on young people!

I don’t know quite what happened here as I was cut off in mid note. So I will now be brief. I have found this site an utter inspiration and am perfectly prepared to pay a fee to ensure its continued existence. I shall have more to add to this later but for the moment, keep this site going and help me grow as a writer.

Using 750 words a day has helped me clear my mind and make progress on some fiction stories. Writing everyday is now a habit and I hope that 750 words continues, even if we have to pay a couple bucks a month to do it. I really benefit from the accountability and I like getting the daily reminder.

Nearly 470 days since joining 750words, a Pegasus heading to the ultimate Space Bird, a real writer now, I hope the site can go on being a gift to writers still as Buster and Kellianne try to keep it alive for us.

I’ve been journaling and creative writing since I was a kid, but I’ve always struggled with finding the motivation to do so regularly. 750 Words feels like a community (a private community, but a community nonetheless!) that holds my hand a little while I take more writing risks. I love the feeling that others are out there finishing their words every day too, all of us pushing ourselves past our comfort zones just a little, delving into our grimy beautiful subconscious muck and carrying our complexities with us throughout the day.

This will be a short note – but I’m just glad 750words exists. I fear I may not be able to continue with it, if it becomes a fully paid site, but I’m glad to have been able to participate in it for the past few months. Sure, it’s something I could do for free – sit myself down and write – but there’s something about the site that really motivates me to do my best, and write my best, no matter whether I’m feeling happy or down or anything inbetween. I’m just very grateful that Buster has been such a kind soul all this while, and I wish 750words all the best in the future, so that more people can be inspired :)

I will not be writing, at least for a while, but the last six months or so have been a great experience here at 750 words. I have been able to get myself in the writing habit and have tenatively launched a blog. I am going to try to devote my writing enrgy to that for a while, so for now, thank you and so long.

Well, it’s over. My streak of 530 days in a row. Finished. Thursday mornings require an early start, so I postponed finishing my post and then forgot it. This happens to many of us.
It has been an incredible ride since I joined forces with Buster Benson back in 2010 or whenever it was. I’ve recommended the site to countless students, both college writers and pre-service teachers. I’ve begun so many writing projects with free writing in the wee hours of the morning on this site. Those early drafts and successive revisions begun here were incredibly fertile.
I don’t know how long I will continue after the changeover to a paid subscription, even though I’ve been donating on a monthly basis during the past year or so. But I am a devoted fan, nonetheless. Thanks for your help, Mario! Best of luck in your new position, Buster! I hope your family enjoys your new home. I regret that I didn’t get to visit that coffee shop in Seattle while you were still hanging out there, but I’m sure you’ll find a new place to hang out at once in a while when your Twitter workload allows for that.
Sincerely, with thanks,
Carol Mikoda

The best thing about this site is that no one reads it.
Because of its anonymity I have the freedom to stop making sense and let ideas and feelings come out that i did not have the courage to even think. I just feel internally freer because of the discipline of writing daily. I can wring from my soul those little angers and fears that prevent me from feeling somewhat more love for my family, my work and my self.

This site got me through NaNoWriMo this year and has got me blogging again. It’s such a great motivational tool. I recommend it to all of my writing friends!

Just became an official patron. Six dollars a month. Have to do without coffee a couple of times a week, but the rewards are so so worth it.

Each day I find myself counting down the minutes to midnight waiting to vent out my daily frustrations. I haven’t kept a journal or diary in a long time and I find I use this as a diary. But it also helps condition me to keep writing every day. It is something I want to continue doing every day of my life. Thanks 750 words!

i love this site. It is one of the vital things i must do every day, along with walking 10,000 steps, practicing piano and sketching something.
BUT, the most important thing i do everyday is work on a series of poems that i hope to turn into a book that is as compelling and exciting as any novel.
This site is helping me tap into the joy of self-disciple and the joy of accumulating small daily accomplishments that will add up into a really impressive accomplishment. And it will make not much difference if i am the only one impressed.

This site has helped me a lot in maintaining a habit of writing everyday. I have a 66 day streak now and the streak effect has been the most important help I received. Even if I had a bad day I made sure to log in and write, just so I wouldn’t break my streak. Yet, it does seem like I will have to abandon this place once it goes pay to use. Like others with a low or no income it does not seem justified to pay what little money I have to keep using 750words. It was good while it lasted though!