The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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I need a conversion path to google authentication. I want to get off the facebook boat. Help.
…dave

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I have spent the last two months trying to write every day so that I could indulge in the post-Challenge reward of mocking my friend, Zhan, who introduced me to 750 words. For two months now, though, I’ve been foiled – as if life is conspiring to mock me instead! But oh well, all’s good – I’m still happy to be a patron instead, and try again next month… (mock mock mock)

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Writing is great! Yeeehar!

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Today, I’m sitting on a 50 day streak. This site has literally changed my life, and I think I’m so addicted to it I can’t help myself but write everyday. Thank you Buster Benson for your dedication and this Aus-some site.

The five friends I roped in to sign up to for the May Challenge have all dropped out by now, but I can’t wait to finally complete my first One Month Challenge!

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Well, I just missed my first day, and it feels terrible – I hope you choke on this cup! ;)

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I was doing so well but I completely FAILED this month. I feel off the wagon and can’t get back on again. Argh.

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Dear fellow 750 Worders,

I’d like to write a short note, as a way of making myself accountable to you all.

Half-way through the monthly challenge (of May) I moved from my student house, to my postgrad friend’s flat on the other side of town. She had left for the fortnight, and welcomed me to flat-sit whilst I revised in peace and quiet for my Finals. Alas, I completely forgot that she had no internet, and none of the surrounding cafes had wifi. So, with that, my second monthly challenge went flying down the drain (a slightly boozy, hazy day lost me my first month). I was, in honesty, gutted. I put it down to not getting enough badges as a child, but to miss out on the Horse of Awesomeness for ANOTHER month was… well. Disappointing.

In retrospect, this project has helped my align myself in some way. From my pondering, I have concluded that, for me, it’s 20 minutes where everything has a single focus. I find ‘relaxing’ an awkward word, and I’m even worse at embracing it, so perhaps it’s the sense of achievement that comes from writing everything in my head (when we spend so much of our time not voicing our thoughts and ideas) with 750 Words, and receiving private recognition.

I decided that I would continue writing. This time, accountable to myself alone, I would write offline in a little writing package. Nearly a fortnight later, and I have written something (if not the full 750 words) every day. I would like to encourage you all that, if for whatever reason you cannot access the internet, to still write your words and release your thoughts.

The 50 days or so that I’ve been writing with 750 Words, and this offline period, has led me to realise I’d like to begin to explore my imagination and, eventually, write a fiction novella. I have no characters, no scenario, but I have 750 Words; a free space to create and discard them and throw ideas around on the screen.

The best of luck to you all and, wherever you are, enjoy the art of writing,
And congratulations Buster!
-HJ

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826 Seattle sounds amazing! Double down!

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Maybe you have this hidden away somewhere that I haven’t found, but I would love to see a list of all the possible badges and what you need to do to get them. Personally, it’s easier for me to be motivated if I’m working towards something. And I love collecting those badges! :)

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I’m not sure, but sometimes you need a vacation! I know—we’re all supposed to be connected 24/7 these days, but in fact, not everyone is. And truly, a few days or even a week offline can be good for the soul. Could one set his/her account to “on vacation” & not damage the stats?

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You know, I started using this site as a bit of an experiment – to see if I could actually stick to writing every day – and it really has turned into one of the highlights of my day.
Also, I’ve been using it as a dumping ground for my psyche, and I have to say, it really helps me get ready for the day, and to process what happened the day before.

Thanks, Buster, for creating this site – and congratulations on your new addition!
All the best,
Martha

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I have written every day for a while now and it feels good even though, oddly enough, the streak has coincided with a particularly dry period in my writing life. I just read another note by someone whose streak fell apart and I do wonder what it will be like for me when I fall off the wagon too. I hope that I can get back into it immediately and find the words I need. Maybe we should each have sponsors, AA style.

Thank you, Buster for the site.

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While this may sound negative in the outset understand that it’s meant to inspire, if not a little out of fear. I mean, I did py 4 bucks to write it to you so I can’t be that upset over the process :)

So here it is, fair warning kind writers, missing a day is a punch in the gut. I started mid month and have been chugging along, wracking up points and feeling really good about the process. Yesterday I failed, yesterday I only wrote 250 words… my percentage went from 100% of the days I started I finished to 89% of the days I started I finished. It will never be 100% this month (God, I hope that % restarts in June as I believe it does). Theres no little dot beside the day in the THIS MONTH page. I’m pulling in points for a spare instead of a strike. If this were my one month challenge my name would be on the wall of shame. I would bet the number of people that start the One Month Challenge that miss a day probably stop all together – Buster would know better than I.

While we can’t let such setbacks get to us and just keep on writing I will send forth this word of warning – beware! Missing a day can really take the wind out of your sails. It becomes a thorn in your side, a niggling reminder of a day you didn’t keep up you end of the bargain to yourself.

So now I have to get back into the road to recovery, limp along trying to ignore the gaping wound I’ve created and hope I keep going on my journey without faltering long enough that the wound heals and I go back to my steady run.

Good luck!
- Don

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I’ve been using the site for over two months now, and I find it is a very helpful habit. It helps me to clear my head, to get down ideas that spring into my mind, to think about various things in my life, and it keeps me in the habit of writing, which makes it easier for me to write. I find I am also typing a bit faster, too. :-) I recommend this site to anyone, because I really believe there is absolutely no one who would not benefit greatly from coming here every day and pouring their thoughts out through the keyboard. Thanks for making it available.

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Gooday it is James from Wanneroo in Western Australia, no I am not a f…….. kangaroo, new migrants affectionally call us skips after the children’s show “Skippy The Bush Kangaroo”. Not that I was born here, migrated here at 7 from Africa in 1960.
Anyway decided to put my money where my mouth is after raving about this site for a month or so.
My next career is a writer, so this site is really disciplining me to write everyday. Also even though I do write a log or journal daily and have for about 20 years, this is really helpful at dumping stuff out of my head, which definately gets clogged up with all sorts of emotions, paranoia, and general rubbish to hamper the way I try to live my life, living life on life’s terms rather than avoiding the issue, or living in a fantasy or a false reality.
The result is my head is clearer during the day to absorb and observe or seems to be, therefore my mood though normally good is even better.
Will be in the US in July this year a week in Portland then travelling north to Canada, so may call into Bedlam Cafe and shout you a coffee. My hangouts here are my favourites. Kumara in Heathridge. http://kumara.com.au/index.php/cafe Followed by my favourite near home in Wanneroo the Elixar.
http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1264669338 Last but not least Macchiato Lounge around the corner from the licensing centre in Joondalup, very important for a driving instructor, my present game in life.
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&rlz=1D2DDAU_enAU313AU313&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=macchiato+lounge+joondalup&fb=1&hq=macchiato+lounge&hnear=joondalup&cid=14455524397936063743 Must go and do some work. On ya Buster, hope to buy ya a brew in July. Regards, James.

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Thank you for creating 750words.com. I am so enjoying my morning pages again.

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Thank you for creating 750words.com. I am so enjoying my morning pages again.

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This has been a huge boon to my writing. Points, badges, and stats all went really far in inspiring me to write day after day. Thanks!!!! My first novel will certainly tell the world how awesome 750 Words is.

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I wanted to agree that I thought the word cloud should remove pronouns. Especially on introspective I would find it far more useful to see substantive words instead of I, me and my.

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Writer’s write. Because of you, I’m writing.
Thank you and congrats on your new family member.

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In two months I’ve written just over 40 000 words by doing my daily 750 words. While doing postgraduate studies. I don’t know why or how it works, but the site rocks. Thanks Buster!

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750 Words has affected me to a point I am too shy to write about in a public way. Seriously.

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I’m enjoying 750words so much!