The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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If there was some way to measure the variety of vocabulary that an individual uses in each post it would be interesting and useful for individuals who seek to expand their use of language.

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I’ve been here for six and a half years and 750words has come to mean a lot to me, through good times and bad. Thank you.

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After a few years away, what’s missing in my writing now is consistency. Thanks 750 words for still hanging out here for me :)

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Every morning I am writing 1000 words, its helping me to wake up and be sharp, I feel like I am making much stronger decision when my brain is fully awake.
In this website I use to write and count my words it give me great analytics of my words, and I can find out about this:

am better camp choose clean come community create everything feel forward going good great her house idea into just like looking lot love make making me meditating meeting minute more morning my myself need next now option our past people really see share start take things up world

What do you think about this combination of words?

Can you guess what was in my head this morning?

Thanks for being so awesome and supportive,

Vision

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I would like to clear out the metadata mistakes where a typo is now enshrined as data that I don’t need. I LOVE the metadata option as it helps me keep track of writings on different book projects, scenes, or writing responses. THANKS!

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Today is my first day back after about ten weeks off. I had been writing steadily here for well over a year, and it had turned into a slog. I wasn’t enjoying it at all, so I just… stopped. Didn’t think about it at all. When the task came up on my list today, I actually felt eager to get over here and start. I took a huge break at the beginning of writing, because lunch happened, and then I had a chore to do, but for the first time in ages, I was surprised when the message telling me I’d got to 750 words came up. It feels good again, and I know that until that last month or so, writing here has always helped me work things out, whether I write about issues or not. Thanks for keeping this place going.

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I blergh the words out and they appear on the page. No editing. No judgment. No failure.

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If you want to delve into the lifestyle and habit-building practice of writing, look no further. Make this a daily tool.

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I don’t expect to write my entire entry on my mobile device (even the web browser is fine) but I’d like to use some app for this. This feature would greatly improve productivity for me.

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Whenever I get inspiration to write, 750 words is there to quickly put down what idea came to me. I’m hoping to be published one day in the ether but until then, I can practice my writing almost daily. The goal of 750 words a day helps a LOT!

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Pin the active typing line to the middle of the viewport. Makes for a better experience and reduces the likelihood of a stiff neck.

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I find this site awesome and I believe it could reach even more people if all the site and features could be also in spanish

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This site has been such a great help to me as a “black hole” to send my thoughts, uncritiqued and raw. Once I pour them out in that way here, I often reach new clarity in difficult situations and the mental noise begins to fade. Over the years as I have come back to 750words.com over and over again, the experience has been a consistent benefit to me. I could log in with stacks of cognitive dissonance and frustration, but upon completion of my words, I am ready to “address the world” again with the madness kept at bay.

Here’s to more “morning pages” at 750words.com in 2018! And Happy New Year to Buster and Kellianne. Thanks for maintaining this terrific writing outlet!

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A user presses a button and is able to download a PDF archive of all, or a selected range, of their entries. Stats on each entry could also be included if desired.

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Happy New Year to my fellow writers. It feels like an appropriate day to use my cups to offer some encouragement as we start another year in this writing community. Thanks to this site I feel like writing is now a habit, and if you do not have that feeling yet, I invite you to use this day to resolve to feel it sometime in 2018. The main change in perspective 750 Words has provided me is that writing tasks feel less daunting. I use the site to create drafts, then paste them into Evernote for revising. I have had co-workers comment on my improved writing, and I turn tasks around faster, and they require fewer rounds of revision because we are starting from a better product. I still do not feel like “a Writer,” but 750 Words has certainly made me a writer. Maybe this year I will resolve to earn that capital W.

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Dear staff of 750 words you are really an inspiration to me and in a way can hardly believe that have been writing well almost daily since the 28th of April in 2013, here I am almost five years later and still being helped on a daily basis to keep writing. it is the maintenance agenda aspect that really helps me and makes me more disciplined. some times I can just sit down and write and I wouldn’t be able to do that if it wasn’t for my daily 750 words exercise am sure that this is what makes me able to get things done. a good new year to you and look forward to being inspired by you for yet another year. it’s the ‘being there’ that I really value you are like my big sista! cheers and love from Mana (Marilyn Hazlett) XOX

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I’ve been away from writing for too long, so here’s to building a habit!

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I pledged to donate $1 to 750 words if I didn’t meet December’s challenge, but it seems that the minimum I can donate is $5 (is that correct? Or is there another way to donate?). In any case that exactly corresponds to the number of days I missed this month, which I had decided to change my pledge to anyway because 750 words has really made a huge difference to me. I’m in the process of setting up a new business but have struggled with productivity and procrastination. I now start my day with a cup of tea and my 750 Words (which takes me between 10-15 minutes) and structure my entries to make the most of the space: First I note down what I need to do that day, and then I write what ONE thing I can do to ensure I end the day feeling productive – even if I only achieve one thing, I can feel a sense of achievement. I then write about 3 areas in my life (1) Business (2) Relationships (3) Self-improvement (health and wellbeing). I don’t always follow this structure, especially on days off/holidays, but it helps to frame the 750 words when I feel that I don’t have much to write about (I almost always go beyond 750 words by the time I’m done!).

I have found this structure a very useful one, and a great start to the day as I then immediately start working on that ONE thing that will make me feel productive – because then I start the day feeling motivated!

One more note – this has really helped my mental state too. I felt quite down and depressed on Christmas Day, and before I went downstairs I decided to write my 750 words as I knew I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t do it first thing. By the time I’d finished writing and got downstairs, I was feeling buoyant and happy, ready and excited to have a great day with my family, like I used to on Christmas Days of the past. That was the day when I realised how much 750 words must be helping my mental state! So thank you for that.

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Today is a really spacial day, I wrote 2000 words.
I was so proud of myself a day before yesterday as I reached to 37 days in a row, it is a big deal that every day in the past week I started my morning pages with excitment that I am still doing it and I am so full of motivation to get things done and I am the best in the world, etc.
and then Yesterday I missed a day, and now I need to start from the beginning, and I think that I am going to ‘punish myself’ by writing more, so today I did 2000 words and maybe , just maybe I will start writing 1000 words a day from now on, we will see.

So thanks for the inspiration, and I am going to keep write as much as I can and one day we will create a book out of all of it.
Speaking on that, if I want to write a book and use pages from what I wrote in this website, who do I give credits too?

Much love and back to work
Vision

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I have always typed out my thoughts onto some kind of document during times of extreme frustration or stress, but making it a habit to type out my thought no matter what mood I’m in every single day has fundamentally changed my life. I look at the stats of that particular day and get meaningful information that helps this process run even more efficiently every successive time I log on. Most importantly, going through this process is not only a mentally therapeutic way for me to hit the reset button, but it drives how the rest of my day unfolds. Being a visual person by nature, I always look forward to seeing what’s been in my head in the form of words on-screen so I can then get to organizing those thoughts—and did I mention how important continuous writing without stopping has become to me? Not only is it a good exercise in discipline to control my ADD of searching for something while I’m typing, but it is without a doubt a form of dynamic meditation that (paired with just meditating right before) is something I don’t ever want to live without again for the rest of my life. That last part took me a while to figure out, even though I’ve known the whole time that’s how it’s supposed to be done. Now I don’t know it, I feel it when I type my words. Thank you for existing.

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750 Words is a great way to clear out the cob webs between you ears. I use it to free write and I try to do it in 20 minutes. That’s how long it takes to get my flow going and then I can do it again and again. I love 750 words for helping a disorganized thinker like me find order

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I am relatively new around here, but I have already become very aware of the improvements in both my writing and my word count! I have discovered, much to my surprise that I do a lot better when I have to get something done in or by a certain time. With 750 words, I have found that I not only want to see how many days I can get in a row, but I also want to see if I can do this every single day for an entire year, and maybe even beyond! I LOVE 750words! It’s like doing NaNoWriMo all year long!!! My personal goal is 1,000 words every single day, as a bare minimum! Since making the goal – 750words has helped me get there – EVERY DAY!!! Thank You 750 – You Rock!!!

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I know, hard to believe. Would love a badge for this one…

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I realized this morning as I wrote, that yesterday’s frenzy of cleaning caused me to skip a day and break a streak. I am back to being an egg from being a flying squirrel but I remain undaunted. This site over the years has helped me write sermons, deal with joy and grief and clear my mind and I will continue!! Thanks so much for a site that inspires writing!!

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Just wanted to say thank you 750 Words! I enjoy writing first thing in the morning – it is a great start to the day. I create my to-do lists, flesh out ideas, and work through issues . I love the process!!