The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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Would love some variety and more badges to work towards!

10 cups

It would be nice if a) you kept with your promises on updates for website (especially for those of us who support it with hard-earned cash); b) you updated community on what’s been done. Because, seriously, there are some VERY simple CSS bugs that haven’t been fixed. There’s never any comments or any interactions with people on feedback/feature request page. There’s very sporadic facebook communication. And now, when you officially announced that 750words is quite a priority in your life… well, 2 months later – nothing. Nothing updated on site. No updates in facebook group. No interaction with anyone.

I am really grateful for safe space to write and this whole website. It does help me a lot. But this relationship with your customers/supporters is too much. You said it yourself: "Anyway. Enough on that for now! Because now that that’s moving out of the intense creative phase, the 2nd BIG PROJECT is 750 Words! I’ve been dying to start working on this again. We mentioned last year that this would be happening, and were a bit overzealous in our timing, but now it’s happening for real! FOR REAL. Seriously.

Kellianne and I have a BIG list of things we know people have been very patiently waiting on for YEARS. Fixing bugs like scrolling on tablets, updating your profile info, and a thousand other strange glitches. Plus… Internationalization! A mobile app! Groups! More badges! And generally making things simpler, faster, and more delightful. Without losing the scrappy spirit of it all, because we are now scrappier than ever."

But apparently it’s land of the dead.

It’s very annoying to not only to not see any improvements but encounter the same bugs that were reported ages ago and could have been fixed in a few hours by a competent coder. But it requires caring and commitment. Do you care?

1 cup

I always come back here. Streaks are great and carry their own power but this feels like home base when I get off track. Thanks for persisting.

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As I write everyday I am able to express my feelings and anxieties, my frustrations and questions. I can talk to myself and release inner feelings and emotions. You can express yourself and answer to know one,but the LORD.

10 cups

I’ve been using this site for years, initially motivated by badges for speed, writing early, writing late, but nowadays it’s the streaks that keep me going. THANK YOU!

25 cups

Today I wrote my 1000th page on the 1006th day of membership. That isn’t a streak, but as much as I enjoy collecting badges, the satisfaction is in the writing. I built plans, worked through difficulties, drafted articles, and recorded moments of joy and sorrow in those thousand pages. None of that would have happened without this site and the encouragement to keep writing. Thank you for this safe place and the insight the statistics give me. I am a better writer now than I was 1006 days ago.

5 cups

So grateful for this site. I have been using it for years, but just passed the 30 day streak. seriously. years. just want to say thank you to everyone who works hard to keep this site going and for every writer that is part of this community.

7 cups

Thanks for being an amazing site that makes me write, every day.

1 cup

Since I started writing 750 words a day, my daily life has become much more structured. I have written nearly every day and it has become one of my strongest habits. It jumpstarts my day and clears my head so I can stay focused on my work throughout the day. If you’re feeling discouraged, do whatever you can to keep up the writing. It will have lasting effects that you’ll notice in all aspects of your life!

4 cups

Whether I dabble or write ‘seriously,’ 750words has been my way in through the door of my writing room. Today I’m hoping four cups will get me to a poem.
Thanks!

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Petition to change category “money” to “values”. I use this site primarily to journal about my inner mental & emotional workings and personal values, NOT financially based most of the time, and it’s jarring to frequently see “money” as a large area of “Concerned with…” on my stats page. I would argue that even if one is literally discussing money, this is in fact a discussion of personal values anyway (the way we spend and consider our finances being a direct reflection of what we most need and want), and therefore would benefit from a rename. Thanks for the consideration. Regardless of these nitpicks, the site has been so valuable, so helpful in allowing me to see and be my self. Thank you <3

1 cup

8 years of waffling here, off and on, and I am still so charmed by the badges!

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I really, really need to feel safe right now, and thank goodness that I am able to write my heart down on these virtual pages. What a time in history this is. My heart is lighter from writing here. I regained my sense of safety while writing. I am safe here, always. Thank you!

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I keep writing even when my stamina is low & I’m physically drained. Writing here enlivens me. It’s a coming home of sorts. The same space I connect with when I meditate. Very grateful every day for this precious space.

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I often go back and read through my previous writing (off and on for 8 years!) and it’s really annoying and clunky to have to either open everything in a new tab from the month page, keep hitting the back button, or try to count the x’s on top to get to the next page of writing – especially when I’m reading on my phone! I would LOVE to just have little arrows at the top and/or bottom of the page to easily move from one day to the next/previous.
Thanks so much for this wonderful website!

7 cups

It would be nice to get a little bit more for money, though I am very happy with what I get at the moment, and I understand that there is money required to keep this site running and to keep things private etc. But it would be great if there were more things to get involved with; like more than just the monthly writing challenges etc. Like really interesting things such as The november writing challenge.

5 cups

It would be great to have some more badges associated with types of writing, or if someone has had a break and they come back, something to encourage them and keep going rather than just having the same badges stuck there and having to do it all again and better to get a new badge.
Having said that; I love this whole site…

1 cup

As a very left brained person, I’ve been interested in engaging the other hemisphere for a while. An odd occurrence that I started to notice is getting common homonyms mixed up. I was correcting them but I think I will stop. I can still figure out what I meant but I think my right brain is making an appearance, you ‘no’ what I mean?

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I’d love to be able to toggle between days more easily while using iPhone or iPad. Often when writing, I’m picking up where I left off the prior day/week.

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Promised a donation after the June challenge. Here’s to another :)

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There is quite a delay in the automatic save feature. WHile I love that this happens, at the end of my writing, I would like to be able to just close the screen and move on. A save button would mean that I don’t have to wait for the automatic save function to kick in. I have lost words in the past and had to email to request that my streak be restored because I forgot that I needed to wait for my final few words to be saved!

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Having tried “Morning Pages” with pen and paper (because I love to hand write) and found I was not getting a benefit but rather finding it a chore, I remembered my friend had told me about a website for the same purpose. I found the site and thought I would give it a try – over 100 days later (though a broken streak due to an unplanned cinema trip) I write every day what ever comes into my head and it is one of the most useful ways of managing my anxiety. Highly recommended.

20 cups

5 years and counting. 750 words is dope.

1 cup

An option in the settings to hide the word count until 750 words has been reached.