The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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This site has been my only friend on some days when I needed to clear my head most. It is a listening ear and does not give opinions or pass judgement. It helps me think through my own thoughts, and I could not be more grateful. Thank you, 750 words.

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If I use my four cups of patronage for this note, will four cups be added to the bounty next month, or only one?
Anyhow, from the bounty, back to the bounty. Salud!

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I’m a little confused on how the text editor works… it doesn’t preserve a single return, only a double? Couldn’t it maybe also recognize a single enter space? (it would be very helpful when I’m trying to make lists – and when I’m leaving my metadata. I’ve had my metadata messed up several times because I didn’t realize that it would run lines together if I didn’t put a double return/enter after each one.)

More importantly, how about the exported archives? They’re kind of a visual disaster – no line breaks at all? I know it’s possible… another site I use (ohlife.com) exports with line breaks (at least the double returns) included. I would be very pleased if it could do the same here.

Thanks so much for this site.

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Good luck everyone.

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On Saturday 8th October I begin a week’s holiday from the Internet. I will continue to write 750 words a day. But because I won’t be able to post to this site, when I return to Internet access on Saturday 15th October, I’ll have to start again from the very beginning. If I could book a scheduled Holiday From The Internet, to be paid for on my return by 750w*days absence, I could keep my Streak … which is at over 130 days and I’d love to hit 200 one of these days!

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In the words of Milton, “He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true Poem.”
Thanks, 750, for getting me that much truer in my Word.

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I have both iDevices, and while I can use the mobile site on them, it doesn’t operate particularly cleanly. I’d pay to download a mobile site.

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Here’s a (minor) annoyance I have with the writing (and archived writing) pages: the title for the writing page is “Write your words”, which is fine, but that happens to also be the title for viewing past days’ writing we can’t edit. How about having the title for those pages be “Your words for the (day) of (month), (year)”? That way, when I open a bunch of tabs with past days to refer back to, there’s more clear information about which tab has what day on it, and only the current one will be telling me to “write” in it.

In addition, being able to toggle on/off displaying the Markdown formatting on the words pages, both current and past, would be nice too.

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I just wrote my first 750 words, yay! I’d love a better mobile site, but thanks for this one. I’m excited to keep writing.

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Thanks a lot 750words.com!
I know that haven’t been recently online, but i have discovered a whole new world that i would like to share with you all.

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750words has changed my life. I have written over 300,000 words since starting almost a year ago and this has transformed my ideas of the possible. I has influenced every aspect of my life and work. I am very thankful.

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I now write. That is what I do, and that makes me a writer.

It is not that I want to write – someday.

I write – now.

It is something that I crave, and thanks to 750 Words, it has become a habit, I have even rearranged my life to fit my “Morning Pages” in to my schedule. I love to stay up late, but I now go to bed around 9PM so that I can get up at 4AM to write.

I can’t imagine not writing.

I’m a writer. It is what I do.

Thank you, 750 Words – Peter

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I’m days away from a flock and so grateful to 750words for helping me to get those words out.

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I have just completed my second Challenge, and I have been thinking that it would be nice to have a badge for every challenge that´s completed. For example, the first badge has a grey border, the second a will have blue one, the third a red and so on.

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I love using this site, but I think it would be even more enjoyable if my texts could be analyzed in my native tongue, Dutch.

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I have just finished my second challenge, and today I´m going to pick up my reward. For those of you who are currently in the running: I´ll keep my fingers crossed that you´ll make it to the finish line.

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I can’t say for certain how it has affected me because I just started 2 weeks ago. That being said, so far I have fallen into a routine where, no matter what, I get up and have at least one accomplishment a day. I get to say, yep, the rest of the day may have been completely unplanned and I didn’t get to do what I had intended, but I did do my words. Check, double check, and check-a-roonie!!

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You’re doing a great thing with this website. Everybody wins!

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First, thanks Buster. I love this site. Second, I figured out how to use the metadata function months after I started using the site, and it would be ideal to go back and enter meta data tags in the earlier entries so I can track all the ideas for my novel that I’ve generated while on this site. Third, thanks again! This is a fun way to do morning pages.

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My writing and typing skills that I’ve had since grade 8 have sharpened since being here. What writing skills do you need sharpening?

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I began using 750 words as a way to get myself back into blogging without censor or care and I’m so glad I did. I have a personal challenge to never miss a day because I have found that it really helps me, A LOT. It helps me clear my mind and think more clearly. It gives me a reason to be typing and saying things that I might otherwise keep bottled inside. Thank you for this site. Thank you for everything you have done for my writing. And even though I sometimes find it a pain, I am always glad that I do it, when I am done. Every one else should do this as well, and your goals might be different and that’s okay. No one writer is the same!

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This site has been an incredible gift. Having a terminally ill mother while in college is not easy to deal with. But because I have been writing for almost 200 days, consecutively, I have been able to relieve my mind. I am not only a better writer, but a better communicator. Having the ability to unleash your mind daily is incredibly healthy! So, I am celebrating with 20 cups!

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I am just getting back to writing after a summer off and I am realizing how much I missed being able to literally dump all my thoughts out on to a page where I can do with them what I will. Thanks for still being here, 750 words, when I was able to return.

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I have to say, this is one of the finest time I’m so proud of myself. Since many years ago reading “The Artist’s Way”, I said I want to do my morning page daily, which is to really just sit down, and write 750 words. Of course I failed for many years. Starting and stop, restarting and failing. Along the way, I lose faith, in my writing and in myself. Today, I finally live up to my words. I actually completed my One Month Challenge. laugh Still now, I don’t know what prompt me to do it in the first place. I remembered when I signed up, I was so afraid. I was hesitated, and the worst of all, I doubted myself. “Can I? Can I really do this? I always say I want to do this, do that…. But I never complete my stuff…” The reason I always avoid the challenge is, I don’t want to fail. I don’t want to appear on the Wall of shame. I feel ashamed. Most of all, I am afraid to fail. So the best way not to fail?—— Don’t do anything at all! Haha. Of course this already marks the failing… … I’m sure all of us have dreams to fufill in this lifetime. Dreams we may have ever since as a little child, perhaps. Dreams we don’t just want them to live in our head, we want them alive, real, now, in our life. The thing is, YES. They can come true, when you take action, when you say, “I’ll write.” It doesn’t matter how much, or how long, or even how good we are. The very thing is, do it. Write. What is the dream you always want to do? Write. Write it down, write it all down, especially the very one you are so fearful of, the one you believe it’s not you who can. Write. So for those who actually did take the challenge and ended up in the Hall of shame…. Don’t give up! You’re already very brave, and you’re good enough. Take the challenge again and I’m sure one day, the daily writing is one of your habit. If some lazy bums like me can do something, and actually able to learn to be disciplined, I’m sure all of you can do it even more, and much, much better than me. Thank you, 750words. You prove to me that I can achieve anything I want, when I put my heart, mind, body and soul into it. Even just 1% is enough. Most of all, I fall in love with writing all over again. I want to take One Month Challenge again in November. I want to write forever. Thank you. :)