The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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Something to keep you going after 100 days, or different colour horse rewards for different months!

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I don’t know how to access text analysis. Maybe I’ll find out now that I have joined. I’m interested!

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I would recommend this website and tool to anyone who is longing for a consistent and thoughtful writing practice. I have not always been consistent, but when I do write, I know that it helps me to focus, take stock, vent, record ideas, and to dream! Thank you for this fabulous tool.

I am still a strong proponent for a hand-written Morning Pages practice, but this has replaced that for now. I love the idea of being able to access this from anywhere and also, I am saving the TREES!!! Any writing is good writing.

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If user chooses — purge old entries automatically. Older than week or month. I don’t want 750 words saved for long.

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I love this site! It helped me to be accountable with my daily writing habit. I started writing daily at the start of the year and found out about this site around 2 months into it. Now I already got the Phoenix Badge and I am going to continue writing here as much as I can. As much as possible, I don’t want to break the streak! Writing daily has given me clarity on my goals and helps clear my mind when I am overwhelmed with a lot of things. I do feel that I am becoming better in handling my goals and managing my tasks. Thank you to the creators of 750 Words!

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Kudos to everyone who makes 750 words what it is. The last 9 months have been so beneficial for me and though I’m leaving the site for now, I’m grateful for the habit it has instilled. Daily writing has had a significant impact on my life by increasing my capacity to explore ideas, wrestle with emotions and just spew out whatever data was just floating in the way of productive writing! THANK YOU, THANK YOU and THANK YOU. The Phoenix badge is one I will wear with pride and a real sense of accomplishment moving forward! Blessings! Joe

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Create a tab or home section that can make the text bold, italics, different text colors, a horizontal page break line (like in Word or Fanfiction.net). Anything on the writing page to make it more personalized and less of a Word document page.

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I crossed the 2 million word mark recently. Recognition via a badge would be a great way to mark this milestone.

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One way to try to write more is to shoot for a monthly target, like 50K words. I track daily my cumulative word count in a bar chart that compares my progress to where I need to be to stay on track. I find the comparison to be highly motivating. I tend to try to surge ahead on the weekends to give myself a buffer if I should fall behind during the work week. On some weekend days, I have written more than 5,000 words. I have passed 50K words in eight of the past 11 months. A badge for reaching 50K words per month would help keep me motivated. Badges for reaching 60K and 75K words would provide additional motivation to press further.

However, I would caution that setting unrealistic goals will set up you for failure because you will become discouraged and give up when you have fallen too far behind. For example, I just crossed the 50K line this morning; I have 10,000 words to go to reach my original goal of 60,000 words in May. With only three days left and a lot of other chores to do more a big trip, I doubt that I will reach 60K.

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I’ve been on and off 750words. However I love that I can jump back in and just write. Writing here is like therapy. Sometimes, I can’t speak the words I want to but with writing, things just flow. Thanks for keeping the site up!

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I have belonged to 750words.com since 2010, but in the first six years or so, my writing was very hit or miss. I used it as morning pages for the first 90 days or so; I was unemployed when I started, and I like the routine. Then I started a new job, and got very distracted and tired, and didn’t write very consistently.

I would start, lose track, and stop. This went on for ages, plus, there was the six month period where I wrote longhand in a notebook, and couldn’t seem to add time to come here.

Now I’m retired; I moved to a new town, and the change was a bit boggling, especially at first. So I started back here, and now I think I have 590 days in a row, though I wouldn’t swear to that. It’s turned into the best habit I have.

I babble, write about my day, write about plans I have, mostly mundane. I plan cleaning, outings, projects, and walks. I write about frustrations and things that make me happy; the cats, the beach, the weather, how I felt when I got up in the morning, what I ate.

I may write something of consequence some day, or not. It’s all OK. Whatever I write makes me feel better, and puts things into perspective.

Thank you so much, 750 Words!

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Today would have been my 101 day of writing in a row but I missed a day (20 days ago) because there was not internet at the hotel I was staying at and then I got distracted with the day. Maybe it’s a silly thing but I really want that badge! I’ve written 235 days since I started in mid Sept last year and I feel so good about that. One of these days I’ll have 100 in a row. I absolutely love my morning routine which involves meditation, writing, exercise and then reading (aloud) at the breakfast table with my partner. I added the writing to clear my mind so that I could meditate better and after a while I switched the order of things because I was finding that my meditation sometimes created topics to write about. I love the writing because it is sort of a continuation of the meditation because it is automatic and I never know quite what is going to come out. Sometimes it’s amazing and always it ends with gratitude. This daily exercise has proven to me that taking baby steps every day towards a goal is the way to achieve anything. I’ve written close to 200,000 words already! That is the equivalent of a couple of books. I will write a book one day, perhaps soon, but in the meantime, I will practice with writing 750 words a day. Thanks so much for this site. It is a gift and I tell people about it all the time. I feel so accomplished after doing it. Thank you Thank you Thank you.

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Your site make me want to live. Really, my mind was really messed, but now I can put my thoughts to separate place. This is amazing, thank you, guys for this site.

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Stats pages can be hard to find, I would like them to be clearer and easier to find :)

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Hello Seattle, I am an Albatross… I found 750 Words while looking for a way to easily write between my work computer and my home computer. I found WattPad at the same time, and 30 days in, love both. Writing 750 words only takes me about 10 minutes, and thus 750 Words as a program is amazing at getting me to take those ten minutes, and sit down and write each and every day, which is absolutely invaluable. If you’re considering trying -go for it! You’ll sleep better.

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Nevermind! LOL I just figured out how to do this :) so no need to change the tabs to show how to find the statistics.

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Love the site! I’d like to add my voice to those requesting a secure server. Online security is becoming more and more essential – please provide your patrons with peace of mind!

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It would be a treat for some of us who are over-achievers and those of us who simply want to do more to be able to increase our word count goal. Being able to set my goal to 1,000 words, 1,250 words or 1,500 words — certainly no fewer than 750 words — would provide additional ways to challenge myself. While I’m free to write as much as I want, there’s something in the psychology of hitting that “done” space at 750 that makes it difficult for me to tack on another 250 words.

And just think of all the new badge opportunities this will open up!

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I’ve recently reached one million words. An incredible milestone and one I wouldn’t have reached without 750 words. It’s the place I can come to clear my head or write stories.
Thank you for a wonderful site.
Laura

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Commitment in all weather. How to maintain that?

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Sometimes an idea once written comes to mind, i want to exapnd it, but i cant find ir as i dint know the date i write it.
and culd a download function be added if you want to collect it all into one document?
Thanks

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I’ve used the Morning Pages off and on for decades; I have stacks of moldy notebooks in heavy boxes in my garage dating back to the 1990s that have moved from Texas to Washington, to Minnesota, to California. Writing every day helps me focus on thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and hopes that otherwise would remain unarticulated in the dusty corners of my mind. What I love specifically about 750Words.com is that I can do it anywhere, anytime without worrying about paper or a pen; I like that I can go back and reread if I feel like it, and I can tweet when I’ve done my words for the day. I’m grateful that it’s password protected, so I don’t worry about someone else reading my intimate ideas. As a mental health therapist, 750Words.com is a mainstay of my self care plan; I also recommend it to my clients. I rarely fill an entire month of green Xs, but when I do, I feel incredibly good about myself.

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I have heard from other writers on this site, realizing I am not alone; that is encouraging. The site is easy to use and motivates me to write. It is like exercising, staying on schedule and following the routine is key.

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My biggest concern about using anything internet based is the potential for misusing or abusing my content. This is a limiting factor in creative expression.

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It would be very useful if we could track more than just 2 items in our metadata. Those stats are a very important feature for me. I’d love to track 5 items!
Maybe you could make this feature open only to patrons, an extra perk for helping you keep this amazing platform going.

Thanks for reading

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I’d be happy to pay more per month for the peace of mind a secure server would offer. If 750 is really supposed to function as a brain dump, I’d feel less inhibited in my writing knowing that my emotional innards were better protected from hacking.

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A little bit ago, I earned my 1 Million Words badge. Wow. That is a lot of complaining, shopping lists, clearing my brain, blog posts, gearing up, assessing problems, sorting things out and dragging my way through getting started.

The fruits of doing the clickety-clack on the keyboard: my book comes out today! It’s a humor book for dads called Man Vs. Child: One Dad’s Guide to the Weirdness of Parenting published by Abrams. I hope some of you will check it out.

I started using the site years ago, in a stop and start manner. But at some point it has become a ritual and a habit and I noticed that when I used the site, I tended to write. When I didn’t use it, I didn’t write. Like, really write. So whether that’s causation or correlation, it always feels worth it to keep the streak up. Simple enough, but if I concentrate on just “getting started,” and clear my brain here, I can keep writing. Thanks Buster and Kelly!