The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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Yes! Finally I’ve managed a 100-day streak. Hello Phoenix!! And thank you for this site, which is helping me work on all kinds of writing – fiction, academic, and sometimes a journal, like I used to keep when I was younger. I’m recommending this to everyone I know who’s trying to write more. Thanks again!

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I think there are certain badges that are easy to add on to — the streak when you’re 500+ [benchmarks are easy 1,000 days, 1,500 days or even by years – 365 days, 730 days, 1,095 days, etc] as well as the flocks. We have 100k and 250k, but what about 500k, 1kk, etc.? And then a time of day one for afternoon writers would be fun maybe a siesta badge [14:00-17:00] or a lunch break badge [12:00-13:00].

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I am now writing every day, which is great. I am looking for tips on how to turn this daily “brain purge” into something more polished. Do any of you turn some of the ideas that flow during your daily write into blog posts? Do any of you start your writing by taking something previously written and expanding on it? Writing is a process, and I need to also grow as an editor, a refiner. Curious to hear what you have to say. [email protected]

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I first saw this on a twitter site and was apprehensive. But I realise that I can push myself to write everyday, something which I gave up years ago. This beats having a blog in some ways because I get to pen down a lot things unfiltered in my mind without worrying what to write about. It’s also pretty flexible. I like the simplicity of it, do keep up the good work!

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Instead of manually adding metadata everyday, a set manually set metadata should added on top of daily page everyday to be filled by me. It saves time, helps easily track and avoid creating new tags.

Thanks for the awesomest website.

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I used to write every day, and then real life started to interfere and all of a sudden I just didn’t have the time anymore. It wasn’t until I found this site that I had a reason to make time. Keeping track of what I write and how things trend in my writing means that I’m interested to find out more, and I can challenge myself: I can slot out 20 minutes in my day to get to 750 words.

Now that I’m doing this, every day I find myself waiting for a slow period at work or to just get home at the end of the day so I can type out what’s been in my head all day. It’s been the best thing for my creativity in a long time.

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For those times when the power goes out!

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You can do it!

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This site is just plain brilliant. I have been writing for over a year now. Even though I have missed four or five days along the way, I have over 478,000 words, including a novel draft and a memoir, plus lots and lots of random jottings. Thank you so much.

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Just wanted to express my gratitude: I am very grateful for 750words.com.

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I like to use the metadata function to track my success in changing a particular habit. The idea of a Goldfinch badge would be something you could give yourself after recording success for 21 days in a row (to create some positive behavior change, like getting up on time for 21 days or walking at least 20 minutes for 21 days or whatever). It would be user determined and directed, and you could earn it more than once for either improving the habit or starting a new one.

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You’re making me do it.

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I like badges. They make me feel good about myself.
-www.annalowery.blogspot.com

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My Eternity stats say that I use about 52 Ums and Ahs on average. 52! I have never ever used even one single um or ah during my 35 days of writing. Which words are counted as ums and ahs? I am very sure I don’t use many fillers, so some explanation would be great. Please fix the stats, they are insulting to my writing :-(

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In doing The Artist’s Way, I found myself struggling to maintain my pages because my handwritten pages took almost 45 minutes to get through (a lot of time for a busy morning). And I often had time to think before I wrote (meaning the resulting words were less than spontaneously true). And they were not secure (really big bright green notebooks are somewhat difficult to conceal from prying eyes). 750 lets me think as fast as I can type, say what I really mean, track my life in the metadata, and get all the excess junk out of my brain so that I can move on and do life. Way to go, 750! Thanks for the great work!

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Last year, I wrote.
Over the course of the school year, I fell away.
Now, I’m back to write again.

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Monthly, daily, I get notes about how self-motivated I am, but it really challenged me when I had to travel on the road, with my laptop and deal with the lack of internet access. If it weren’t for the internet of others, I would have ruined my streak. I’m so close to 500 I can taste it! After that, I can slack off all I want, but even then, I have so many words and thoughts inside that I can’t let them build up. This is a great place to spill my brain out onto and to discipline myself to do it daily is one of the greatest feats I’ve done lately. I hope I keep it up.

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Perhaps you can add a feature that shows a summary of each day (say 50 words or a paragraph), so that we can look back through a month and get a snapshot of what we were thinking, feeling or writing on any particular day.
Sometimes I look back through my past entries, and a lot feel like they were written by someone else. It would be nice to be able to trawl the past at a glance and pick-out entries to re-read etc.

I hope this sounds like a fair idea?

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I am so grateful for 750words.com. Whilst I’ve been writing my morning pages on here for months with great success, it has only recently occurred to me to pledge to also write 750 words of my PhD thesis every day. This includes everything from notes to full analysis, even bits of program code that I can export as text (the coding thing is really funny; at times I’ve started properly commenting my code just to reach 750 words). And having textual analysis for academic writing is amazing — nobody wants to hand in a literature review where the writing is introverted, negative or uncertain. Whilst the subjects could be improved (algorithm gets a bit confuzzled when I talk maths to it), every other part of this site is an excellent feedback mechanism in lieu of a supervisor. Can’t believe I wasted all that power just using it as a journal for months on end. Keep it up — hope to see more amazing useful features soon.

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For me doing the monthly challenge was a huge achievement and it firmly established my habit of writing every day! I hope you all do well in the July challenge :-)

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write on!

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This and a privacy policy will keep me here. Thanks for everything you do, Buster!

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When I was in elementary school I relied heavily on writing to cope with the bullying I endured. Over the years writing has become my safety net but I have never been able to keep a journal to document my thoughts due to the paranoia of someone reading it – I’d be mortified. The reason I love 750 words is because it’s where I can jot down my thoughts & not have to worry about people peering into a public Tumblr post or a journal that I left misplaced. I’ve seen an immense improvement in my writing & I am content that I can clear my head in a private space. For that I am eternally grateful.