The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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May all your (good) writing dreams come true. Happy New Year!

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I’ve just started using this site, and I already love it. This is my more-public way of announcing my own personal Challenge: To block out everything I want to write about in my memoir. I don’t know if I’ll be able to write every day, but in 3 months I want to have a solid outline and story arc to begin my research. Thanks 750words.com and I had NO idea I was supporting a local Seattle business! I’ll have to head down to Bedlam and see what I can see (I’m a Capitol Hill girl!)

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Just earned the 365 days badge, woohoo! Thanks, Buster, for a site that keeps me motivated to write. Some days, nothing much comes out, but other days have insights and breakthroughs that have made 2012 a year of growth and inspiration for me. May 750words.com live long and prosper!

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I can’t believe I’ve written a million words in just six hundred and five days! Three novels written, a script and lots of stream of consciousness in these entries and here I am. I figured there’s no badge for that, by hey, I feel accomplished.

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This year I’ve been on a Challenge. In January I pledged to write every day of the month, for every month of the year.

Here was my gamble:
“If I succeed, I will… sign up for and complete every single Monthly Challenge throughout 2012 and save up all my One Month Challenge Bounty Cups to donate in one big Double Down on Charity Note for 826 Seattle next Christmas.”

So, now that the year has all but passed, Christmas has come and gone and I have won my bet of writing through every single month of the year up till now, it’s time to stand by my word and honour the rest of my pledge.
Christmas is a time to give back to those who have given to me. And this site has given me so much –
a steady outlet for all my innermost thoughts and feelings,
a safe and cosy writing nook that’s always there when I need it, for whatever I have to get off my mind, no matter how trivial it may seem, yet all the while making me feel like I’m writing for a good cause and not just for myself,
a whole host of cute animal badges that keep me writing on and marvelling at my own perseverance,
an amazing global community of fellow journal writers, all united in the same quest, who give me a sense of belonging and purpose for my journalling habit
and, most importantly, a grand total of almost 500.000 words output in just under 460 days – an enormous feat which I certainly would have had no way of achieving without this site! I had been journalling longhand for a couple of years back in the olden days, but I’d wager I have never ever written as many words in a single year before I moved my writings to 750words.

This year of writing here on 750words has been an incredibly enlightening and rewarding experience, on so many different levels. So I’m glad to finally be able to give something back to the site and to pass on half of the bounty to 826 Seattle at the same time. Promoting writing skills in young people is always a worthy cause that I am more than happy to support, wherever in the world it may be.
So here I am gift-wrapping my whole Virtual Coffee Cup Collection I’ve been steadily growing throughout this past year – 49 to date, topped off with one more Cup fresh from the Virtual Coffeeshop to make it a round sum – and sending it on its way across the Big Pond, tied up with a big red ribbon that reads “Write On!” :)

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Have managed to get 100 days done after more than a year writing on a nearly daily basis. It has helped me a lot over the past year. Looking forward to the next one hundred. Thanks.

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Today, I wrote my words for the 1,000th time in a row. I would never have been able to have the desire or motivation without this site, and I truly appreciate its creation and existence. Thank you so much for 750words.com.

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Go Go Go!!

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I can’t believe that my streak has extended to 750 days! That is over 2 years and 770,000 words! This site is so wonderful and these past 2+ years have been so amazing. This is a great place to sort out the details that rattle around in my head. I get things out and can look at them objectively, make decisions, and plan for what I want to do. Who knew that I could stick with something for 750 days?! Amazing. Here’s to 750 more! Thanks Buster, and Happy Holidays!

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750 words is helping me against procrastination. I always work better with some level of “pressure”. Forcing my daily words out is one of the best ideas I’ve ever seen.

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It’s amazing how motivating the little cartoon badges are for not breaking a streak.

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750 Words is a great tool for prioritizing, not just tasks, but thoughts and emotional energy. And that is a good thing.

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This would be very cool!

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I would just like to voice my idea about writing my words online vice longhand or even on my own software/computer. While the concept of writing morning pages is for the words not to be read again, some may find this impossible to live with. Myself, I covet my words, all words. I started writing when I was very young. I have slips of paper from over forty (+) years and counting. I do not go back and read them all but they do mean something to me. I cannot let them go. Some may find comfort here and some may not, that is the way of the world. I will attest that writing 750 words each day will change your life, so it is important to find the most comfortable spot to write and write, write, write!

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I love this site :) That is all.

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I think I have already requested this. My patronage will end at the beginning of next month. I just love 750 words, but have had issues with Paypal and will absolutely NOT use it any longer. So if I cannot use my credit card, I guess I will have to give up patronage, although I will, no doubt, continue to write here. I have been writing for over a year now and am really willing to continue being a patron, 750 well deserve it!
Please, let us use some other way!

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I met someone the other day and she wrote artists’ pages and said the whole point was that you had to be sure nobody would ever read them, otherwise you wouldn’t be honest with yourself. On reflection, I kind of agree – posting stuff to a database on an internet server, no matter how much you trust it, always makes you feel a little guarded. There are some things I don’t write about…

I guess it could work in a couple of ways. The most dramatic would be a self-destructing version where as soon as you finished writing the words were destroyed and no records kept (this artist said she tore her pages up and burned them after writing every morning).

Or slightly less sever – the same interface, but posts are saved to an encrypted file in Dropbox.

Cheers!

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So coming into the end of 2012, I hope that next year we all will be able to start 2013 with a focus we developed in 2012, and to have the best year yet with our writing!

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I didn’t realize that this was the three-year anniversary for 750words.com. I feel as though it has been around for my entire adult life, but really it has only been around for the most recent incarnation, when I left my decades-long public school career and went back to grad school for a doctorate. So many reflections I’ve done here, early in the morning when the house is very quiet. So many papers I’ve worked on, starting with just the bare bones of an idea or two and expanding through the marvelous machine that is this platform. I truly appreciate your contribution to the World Wide Web, and to writers everywhere, Buster Benson, and my paltry monthly donation doesn’t express it strongly enough. Here is a mug or two or three of support and gratitude. I hope you can continue to shepherd new writers to new heights for many years, including this one that is coming up. Happy New Year, and congratulations on a job well done. Good luck with your other projects, as well.
Sincerely,
Carol M.

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Oh, Phooey. I have ended up on the Wall of Shame for this month. I woke up yesterday morning and realized that I had gone to bed early and had not written my words for the day. However, I am back on track, have written in the morning for the past two days (that works much better for me), and will still have written for 30 days this month.
In a broader perspective, I didn’t write anything at all for almost nine months. I returned in mid-Novemeber, and can say that I consider myself to be a writer once again, thanks to 750words.com I’ll do my penance for this month, and stay with it. I have that 200,000 word badge within reach!

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We’ve done it again, some of us, and for the first time for others. Wooots to us! Keep going, 750 worders!!

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Congratulations to Buster and the team on the 3rd anniversary of 750words!! Many Happy Returns! That means I’ve been with the site 2/3 of its life—love it and thanks for the work. Make a wish and blow out your 3 candles!

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Create real-life badges to sell, like the NaNoWriMo badges you can buy.