The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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750words has been amazing for me. Honestly, it’s surprising because I’d assumed writing 750 words a day would be a start-stop situation for a while before I hit anything like a streak. But I started writing on Christmas Eve last year and haven’t looked back… well, let’s hope saying it out loud doesn’t jinx it :D All the people who make the Pegasus and Space Bird appear on “Today’s Writers”, you are truly inspiring. Thank you :)

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I worry about losing this shiny new habit of writing every morning if I’m on vacation and don’t have my computer with me.

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This would add motivation and fun.

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I’m a longtime devotee of morning pages, but hate hauling around a notebook full of personal stuff. 750words makes it possible to sustain that practice without making my messenger bag heavier.

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In January after writing with 750 Words for a month I started a Memoir Writing class through our local Senior University. I excitedly told my fellow students, who are all over the age of 65, of this marvelous site that encouraged daily writing and provided a fun motivation to continue writing our life stories. Many have followed my lead and are enjoying the site as well. Thank you!

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In our busy schedules, with this busy society we often forget to take time for things that matter. We often give so much to others that we forget to strengthen ourselves. 750 words is the time you can use to strengthen emotions, clear the confusion and take care of yourself so that you can face the day better and take care of the beauty of life that awaits you.

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I really love this site. Here, I can get out all those feelings and ideas not really meant to see the light of day—or at least, not yet—and work things out, I love when I’m busy exploring one idea, only to get a flash of inspiration for another. And here, I don’t have to worry about formatting and editing. All that can be done later after I’ve exported. Here, it’s only me and my thoughts.

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Badges really get me motivated, and I love the feeling i get when I’ve earned a new one.

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So I messed up my 83 day streak on Saturday, February 25th. Totally spaced on doing my words on time – kept putting it off during the day. I have been angry at myself and avoiding writing here since then. I realized that this is something I typically do – get so focused on stats and doing something right or the way it “should” be that I neglect the larger goal and sabotage myself. I really want to take a stab at NaNoWriMo this year and I want to start writing those songs I’ve been saying I think I can write for the last 3-4 years. In order to do that, I need to be disciplined enough to write every day. But it doesn’t have to be within a certain time frame, nor a certain speed, nor do I have to compare myself to others. So I am back here, donating the amount I said I’d donate if I messed up the February challenge. And I’m re-committing to writing every day – regardless of what my stats say.

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I’ve now managed three months straight. It’s perfectly possible even with a busy schedule: you can do it!

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It has done what no other website or project has: success in creating a daily writing habit (yes, Stephen Pressfield, I’m on my way!)
Some days are better than others, but the creative days are winning ground.
I recommend 750words to everyone I know, to the extent of volunteering to translate everything into Spanish.
It’s a place to let loose on hopes, fears and excitement, figure out the next move. A daily highlight.

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Staring at a blank screen every day helps me overcome my writer’s block. Thank you 750words.com for getting me closer to finishing my dissertation!

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I love this site. Not only is it helping me stay on track to complete my dissertation, it’s doing good work in the world! I’m proud to be a part of this. Thank you, Buster!

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I have now been writing continuously for over 150 days and have written more than a quarter of a million words which is pretty awesome for me. But I have noticed something interesting. I am getting much faster in that getting my 750 words written rarely takes me longer than twenty minutes now because my stream of consciousness just seems to take over so that I am never lost for words they just keep coming. Thats why I love this site and the activity it encourages it is so creative and so useful.

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With yesterday’s post, I finished six months of daily writing. At least 750 words a day (words, not literature)
I never thought I had it in me and it would never had happened without Buster and http://750words.com
Thanks a lot!

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I’m looking forward to receiving my NaNoWriMo Badge for going over 50,000 Words in February! :-)

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How about a badge for a million words? After a two-year streak, I’m getting close ;-)

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I have been writing since I was a mere 6 years old, but I’ve never been very consistent. Oftentimes if I wasn’t feeling inspired to write something in particular, I wouldn’t write anything at all. I did keep a journal fairly regularly for a period of about a year and a half, but even through high school and college, and now beyond, I’ve never been in the habit of writing daily. I love and appreciate this site for giving me the challenge and the incentive to write every day. I’m not a terribly competitive person, but I do love earning points and badges and there is something strangely addicting about seeing all those X’s in a row for days completed. I’ve been at this for about six and a half weeks now and I can’t see myself stopping any time soon. I love logging in each day and writing about whatever I feel I need to and then going through the stats and learning more about myself and my capabilities. It’s also nice to know that I can push myself to write even when I don’t feel like it. Last weekend was particularly rough since I was out of town and at a family wedding, but the entire weekend was non-stop action, and more often than not I was practically falling asleep as I wrote my words, but write them I did. So thank you for creating this site and good luck to all the writers that may just be starting or I may have caught much later on in their journey.

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That I love what this site allows me to do is not special: I think many of us feel that way. But, one of my favorite non-writing things to do on this site is look at how many people are writing FOR THE FIRST TIME! I know that the number is high compared to any other badge, but it’s remarkable that it’s large every day. It’s great to see that every day, More and more people are regularly finding something inside themselves that makes them want to write, and that makes me feel amazingly great.

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I’m looking forward to completing the challenge for March!

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750 words is an amazing website.
I have always meant to journal on a daily basis, but i tend to fall out of the habit. 750words offers a convenient interface that makes it so easy to keep writing! Tomorrow I will receive my Albatross, and I am so excited. There is an excellent sense of accomplishment that comes from making a goal and sticking to it. Not only do I feel good for accomplishing that, but writing every day has been astoundingly cathartic and has helped me in my everyday life in a very tangible way.
Thank you so much for this amazing website, it has helped me immensely in the past month, and I am sure that it will continue to in the future!
Keep up the excellent work.

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I’ve written every day of February and am looking forward to getting my albatross on the first day of March. Thank you, Buster!

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I’ve had an account here for 76 days and have written my 750 words every single day. It feels a little silly to be motivated by a picture of a little bird, but it works for me, so I’m not arguing.