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

6 cups

I keep missing a day here and there. It makes me all the more impressed with those that manage to write for 30 days + without a break! And how about that guy who has been writing for 500 days. Wow. Keep up the good work.

One Month Challenge Bounty from Rebecca Harris on Mon, Jan 07
1 cup

I came across 750 Words in the middle of a rather black bout of depression. Within two weeks of writing my daily thoughts, about what bothered me, etc., I was able to quit counseling because writing here took its place. I’ve also found that I’m writing fiction related things by the time I start hitting 750 Words – something I despaired of not having enough time to do because of my work schedule. I decided I had to become a patron of this site because if writing here continues to keep me out of a counseling office, it’s worth the price.

Testimonial Note from Heather A. Moeller on Mon, Jan 07
1 cup
More text analysis

Could you have a feature where it counts how many different words you have used over all time, so you see how wide a range of vocabulary you use? This could be difficult since you wouldn’t want to count “say” and “said” as different words.

New Feature Vote from Claire Lefferts on Mon, Jan 07
1 cup
multilingual writing

Like a few other patrons — I’d like to be able to write in more than one language without my non-English language showing up as “bla-bla words.” It would also be cool not to have them all marked as misspelled by the computer. This could be a special setting, if it’s too difficult for the program to recognize the other language automatically as happens in Word and in Gmail. For me, the other language would be German, or sometimes Italian. Thanks!

New Feature Request Note from oneseaurchin on Mon, Jan 07
1 cup

I get great joy in writing 750 words that do not have to make sense. Sometimes i am shocked how i find deeper meanings in my life by letting sense come out of the random phrases i am typing. It is like my fingers are thinking.

Testimonial Note from Marc Tretin on Mon, Jan 07
1 cup

Doing this writing regularly is incredibly healing for me. I find that I am not good at sorting out what’s going on inside of me without writing it down, and yet it’s difficult for me to find the time and energy to do so. 750 words gives me the platform and game-ifies it, which is a helpful motivator. I always feel refreshed and revived. Better than therapy.

Testimonial Note from Anonymous on Sun, Jan 06
1 cup
iPhone App

An app for the iPhone/iPad that would allow you to write your words through it and provide the word count/WPM stats would be awesome, especially if it could run without data if needs be. I would be willing to pay for an app like that for those days when the only internet access I have is my phone. Accessing the website through an iphone can be annoying, and does not give options to manually save, so sometimes portions are lost because the autosave did not go through.

New Feature Request Note from Jaqui on Sun, Jan 06
1 cup

Just go for it…the badges make you feel great!

One Month Challenge Bounty from rose on Sun, Jan 06
1 cup

Like many others, I’ve resolved to write more (and more frequently) in 2013. That so many of you have been diligently writing pages without fail for months — even years! — is inspiring beyond measure. Cheers to you all!

Testimonial Note from Ryan Namba on Sun, Jan 06
1 cup
Double Down on Charity Note from A. Nonymous on Sun, Jan 06
10 cups
Improve the patronage features

I just finished a streak of 500 days! I am having a hard time believing this myself.
I do hope that by mid January, as I have been told, I will be able to “patronify” using my credit card, instead of Paypal, which I do not trust at all.
Thank you 750words for helping me find the motivation of writing every day for such a long streak. I never thought it possible!

New Feature Vote from Claude Covo on Sun, Jan 06
1 cup

I started using 750 words (again) to do my Morning Pages because my hand got too cramped when I used a pencil. Now I couldn’t imagine doing them any other way. I love this site, especially the fun insights into the mood of my writing. Thank you for keeping this going!

One Month Challenge Bounty from Danielle Meitiv on Sun, Jan 06
2 cups

I’m in a kind of clean-up-and-renew-your-life-state. My house, my closets and most importantly my mind. 750 words has proved to be surprisingly helpful in the process.
It seems, that as long as I force myself to keep writing, even when I don’t think, I have anything (valuable) on my mind, the inner clean-up takes carer of itself. And I can go … Wauw … sÃ¥ that’s how it is!
- And then I can go organize another drawer ;-)
I’m truly grateful for this page.

Testimonial Note from Maria Kjær-Madsen on Sun, Jan 06
1 cup

So today was a really busy day, and at 9pm I decided to go upstairs, get into bed, and read for a while. As soon as I opened my book, I remembered: Oh no, I haven’t written my words for today yet! I’m at the end of my first novel, and it’s getting tougher every day. If it weren’t for 750 words I might have just stopped writing, decided, Oh, I’ll just edit what I’ve done so far, etc., etc., and never finished the project. Tonight I wrote the hardest scene, and broke my own record for the fastest time. Write every day. Easy to say. Hard to do. Thanks, Buster

One Month Challenge Bounty from Liz Demaree on Sat, Jan 05
1 cup
More badges for accomplishments

I really enjoy the badges, they make my spirits grow and I’m proud of them in a funny way (being an albatross – a proud bird). So if there were more to get, I would have even more fun with them! Thank you.

New Feature Vote from Sonja B. on Sat, Jan 05
1 cup
Bilingual writing

Being a German living and studying in Britain, I often write in English and German in the same note. Would it be possible to select two writing languages at the same time so if English is selected, German doesn’t just show up as blabla words in the stats?

New Feature Request Note from J Laubmeier on Sat, Jan 05
10 cups

I am so impressed at those of you on 100, 365, even ten-day streaks. I’m in awe (and, admittedly, a bit of envy) of those who have succeeded in such crazy feats as writing for 416 or 844 days in a row. My longest streak was eighty-two days, and that was years ago. Since then my longest run is closer to nine days. I feel I am in very good company, fellow spillers of words. I joined this site on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, and have written 760,029 words and completed 815 days. And because I am so inspired reading the stats of others, I’ll report on a new feature I just found: “All-time stats: 1020 days since you joined. 939 daily pages started. 815 daily pages completed. You’ve participated in 92% of the days since joining. You’ve completed 80% of the days since joining.” As others have testified, I, too, like to spill my thoughts, worries, and obsessions, notes for ideas and projects to undertake, to-do lists and things that make me mad or sad, or simply, world-weary. This site, however, and knowing I’m in the company of many others tapping away, is inspiring. So look at your stats again, and, if, like me, you don’t have a super streak to brag about, consider the all-time stats of keeping on keeping on. Your own long-time percentages might just make your day.

Testimonial Note from Adriana Grant on Sat, Jan 05
10 cups

Just wrote my 400,000th word, a couple days after my one year streak, and I just wanted to thank 750words for giving me an excuse to set aside 30 minutes to reflect on every day. My words aren’t always an inspiration, but the process always is!

Testimonial Note from Robert John Metcalf on Fri, Jan 04
1 cup
An iPhone/iPad app
New Feature Vote from Karma Nima on Fri, Jan 04
1 cup
Highlighting of my own name in Monthly Challenge Horse Chart

I think that it would be an excellent motivational feature to have my own name highlighted on the Monthly Challenge Horse Chart so that I know how I am going on the “race”. It would certainly keep me motivated to continue writing everyday, as I can see my progress throughout the month. Also, I think psychologically it keeps me focused on the idea that I am doing a Monthly Challenge, and not just doing my daily exercise.

New Feature Request Note from Cindi Fisher on Fri, Jan 04
2 cups

I am happy to have 750 Words, and I am happy to support the power of writing for youth.

Double Down on Charity Note from Alec on Fri, Jan 04
1 cup
Double Down on Charity Note from Esther Gibbons on Thu, Jan 03
1 cup
Android App

How’s about a good, easy to use, Android app? Please?

New Feature Request Note from Laura Gharazeddine on Thu, Jan 03
1 cup

Happy New Year 750Words and fellow writers! I haven’t signed on and written anything in a long time (it’s been a ROUGH couple of years!), but here’s the (almost) first day of a new year, and the (almost) first day of a resolution-to write 750 words each and every day. Ooooh! THAT felt GOOD!

Testimonial Note from Laura Gharazeddine on Thu, Jan 03
1 cup

Sometimes I wonder how much this stream-of-conscioussness writing really helps me. I recently got my answer. I’m in my last legs of grad school and am applying for jobs. Cover letters, statements of teaching philosophy, and the like are some of the best candidates for writers block, but ever since I started writing daily it’s been much, much easier. Keeping up a regular writing habit really helps me get the words out when I need to.

Testimonial Note from Jennifer Fletcher on Thu, Jan 03
1 cup

I finished my first NaNo novel with the help of this amazing site! Now, I’m still going strong on my streak, and thinking about my next novel. This site is amazing! I said that already! But it’s true twice, or even more times!

Testimonial Note from Joshua Dickinson on Thu, Jan 03
5 cups

I fell back to an egg over the holidays, but started again on January 1 and will try to keep going all year! If I make it, I will donate more cups!

Double Down on Charity Note from Brenda Sharpe on Thu, Jan 03
1 cup
More badges for accomplishments

It seems really juvenile how excited I’ve become to collect badges (something, I believe, which hearkens back to my Neopets days), but they’re SUCH good motivators. They activate the little competitor or avid collector in all of us.

Of course, I know there is a limit to how many badges become too many before badge inflation occurs and none of them mean anything anymore, but until then—-more animals!

New Feature Vote from AZ on Thu, Jan 03
1 cup

20 days so far, and it’s so easy…

That’s what the testimonial I want to leave, that, given you’re reading this, you know 20 days is so easy, it’s just one day of writing 750 words after another, and you do that 20 times.

Then you just keep doing that, eh, geophf?

Yeah, it’s just that easy. Back to writing my story “My Sister Rosalie.”

cheers!

Testimonial Note from geophf on Thu, Jan 03
20 cups

I’m wealthy! This site rocks hard mostly, yet often a nudge in the ribs…and sometimes a nearly inaudible whisper…best dang writing prompt on the web and gol durn it, I done stuck to it with a one year streak and likely the only thing this old Space Cowgurl has stuck with for so long. Yippie!

Double Down on Charity Note from Carol Helander on Wed, Jan 02