The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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I am within days of my NaNoWriMo Badge here on 750words, and dancing around the room! AND my One Year Badge, too! 750words has taken me to being a daily writer, such a long-held-off dream. Love it!!! Even with all the frustrations of the site…

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I used to sit for a long time at the computer just staring off into the infinite void and wondering….what the hell am I going to write about today? For me, it is a struggle to get the ball moving in the first place when it comes to writing. Since I discovered 750words.com, I have stopped asking myself what I am going to write. Instead I just put fingers to keyboard and let fly. Sometimes it is for my novel, other times it serves as a great journal to hash out weird thoughts.

Thanks 750words and Buster! You rock!

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It feels absolutely wonderful to re-connect with my “Writing Self” on this site. When I first found 750words.com, I launched in and was able to sustain a 180 day streak, racking up badges and producing over 100,000 words. And then, I just stopped. Dried up. All of my other writing (blogs, promotional pieces for my business, etc.) also ground to a screeching halt. I realize that I have been away for 9 months — so something new was clearly gestating in my unconscious.
Now I am on a 10-day streak, and have started a new blog where the new ideas are birthing and finding a voice. Thank you, 750, for being here as a foundation for my writing, and a place to “prime the pump” for the voice that I now realize must be allowed to flow.

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Not until I came to 750 words was I able to do Morning Pages. The last several years I’ve gotten too caught up in my handwriting: too loose, too crabbed, too crooked—and which journal, which pen, all of which made me crazy. And sustained typing wasn’t much fun after an elbow energy.

Well, next week (if all goes well) I’ll have a 100 day streak. My mind is friendlier and more accessible to me, and my typing is smoother.

I joined this year’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, November) with the goal of producing a 50,000 word manuscript. I won’t make that goal, and it’s okay because I have in place the foundation for a memoir that I’m going to feel good about. I’ve captured insights in 750 Words and will be able to use certain passages as they are. I couldn’t have done it without you.

When I finish the book, tentatively titled “Celebrating This Body, This Life,” I’ll be sure to put the word out here. I’m thinking it may take up to a year to do it right: lots of fast writing, lots of rearranging pages, lots of editing. It’s all good.

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500 days, 600,000 words. See what a chimpanzee with a typewriter can accomplish?

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I earned my MFA in fiction last May and was terrified of having no one to be accountable to out in the “real world.” 750 words has kept me honest. It makes me write every day, something even my professors couldn’t do, and I’ve become very protective of my 124 day (and going!) streak. Thanks to this site, I no longer fear writer’s block, because I know I can work through it. For that, I am eternally grateful.

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I am so happy I found this site! I wrote three pages by hand for a little more than two years then, somehow, jsut got out of the habit. It was very difficult to get started again. 750 Words has been my answer. The badges are silly…and so very effective for me. The daily brain drain is stimulating my creativity, making room for many ideas and, a side benefit is my typing speed is increasing with the daily practice. Thanks so much, Buster!

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I absolutely love this site. it is great for the decluttering of the mind!

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No real words of wisdom here. Just write. Oh, and this. Apply velcro to your seat (both) and attend to the page. And maybe this. For those of us who need to write, there isn’t any other game in town.

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I heard about 750words one morning in August from a dear midwife friend. We were having coffee at Midtown settled in near the fireplace, exchanging stories about our kids, endeavors, births (hers, I’m retired from active midwifery), our usual monthly catchup. I became so excited about the site that when I returned home, I signed up and wrote my first words. I did not have time for 750, but I have made the time all but two days since. I have used 750words to train myself to daily writing, even it it’s drivel, because I knew that in order to write the 50K towards my novel during the NaNoWriMo, I’d have to write daily or get so far behind I’d not reach the word count for my first draft. 750words provided me the inspiration and platform to write to my goal, and I’m pleased to say that I am where I need to be for the middle of the month. I’ve enjoyed the personality of the website, the badges, and the opportunity to prove to myself I can write, sometimes quite well. THANKS to Buster and his brainchild!

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This is day one for me, a newly hatched egg with aspirations of becoming a turkey. My writing has been stunted and stagnant for over a year and a half now. Before then, I could write thousands of words in a sitting, day after day after day. I just couldn’t run out of ideas and the words to express them. I wrote 10,000 words in a sitting once. So what happened? My grandmother, a great inspiration in my life, passed away. She was more than an inspiration to me though; she was safety and comfort and love, and without those things I found I could not do much at all. The rest of my life I have rebuilt, but my writing still suffers, is still a withered and lifeless thing in need of breath and motion. And here, I hope I can find the life in it again, through these baby steps of 750 words a day. Hope is an odd emotion for me, glinting out of reach like a bit of bottle glass in beach sand, worn smooth by waves and time. Is this for me? Dare I pick it up and carry it with me? As I hatch from my egg, I say to myself and to you, yes. I dare. Also, I wish I actually had a piece of beach glass. I used to. I wonder where it went?

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I just got my 365 badge, love it!!! Are any new badges on their way???

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Good luck to everyone participating in NaNo. I hope you all finish!

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I am a failed writer who fails with each additionally word. I am lonely. The white screen is lonely. Nothing is being said. So I fill it. There’s still more white than black, but I tried. Let’s use the whiteness as a sail and find things to fill it with. It will be the greatest adventure of all time. Follow me.

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I couldn’t sign in because of a technical glitch yesterday and broke a 65 day streak and my November challenge. I would gladly pay for the privilege of being able to access help in such a situation, as neither feedback option resulted in any response. Saddened, but writing again.

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Good luck! It’s fun~ ^u

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This site has helped me decompress after tough interviews and exams, as I’m able to write out all my thoughts without having to tie anyone to a chair to listen to my ranting and raving about what went well and what didn’t. Today especially, it helped me put everything into perspective and get my mind back on a positive path for the future as I search for the right job for me. I believe that I missed an important issue in a written test, yet on the way home received a call for an interview for a different position, and that brought up a lot of conflicting emotions. Through my writing here, I’ve been able to see what my next steps need to be, and now no one else is subjected to my emotional confusion. They may not thank you directly for this site, but I know they would if they realized what it did for them, through me!

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November 15th, halfway point in NaNoWriMo and 750words made it possible. 12 days from my One Year Badge! And SOOOO happy to see the weather widget working—hope it never goes on the blink again. 750words is like a favorite coffee shop—gotta get my fix every morning! Thanks to all the team who make it work!

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Oh the irony – I was so busy writing with NaNoWriMo yesterday that I forgot to log in at 750words. And so, I’ve failed this month’s challenge! Meanwhile, here’s something for everyone who is still in – and who remembers to log in daily!

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Thank you for the place to spew my daily thoughts! Although my entries are not always exciting and I sometimes draw a blank, I always manage to come up with 750 words in the end (or more) and it has forced me to commit and enjoy this daily ritual. Awesome idea. Good vibes all around :)