The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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I’ve always turned to the page as a cleansing loving therapy. That being said it’s been a dry spell for either writing or reading others words… someone very dear to me is going through a huge transition and is just starting up here as well. All I can say is I’m really excited to begin the next steps to my own journey and this is a great tool! I’ve already signed up as a member because I know this is powerful. If anyone out there is feeling timid just try it… you’ve got nothing to lose just the confusing mess of garbage floating around your head 😉
Happy healing folks

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I have been a pretty prolific journaler over the past 3 years. Prior to, I tried a few different online platforms, including a simple word document, but always returned to paper and pen. A mentor/teacher/friend of mine recommended 750words and, I have to admit, I’m totally hooked.

My beloved paper journals now hold the images that correspond to my journal entries here. In this way, I have found a lot of balance between the speed of getting my thoughts out by typing and having the ability to create a more tactile experience. Furthermore, I have begun to paint mandalas instead of printing images from other artists. I am now able to fully express myself through paper and paint because my words flow so much smoother with the speed of typing and the goal of pushing through to at least 750 words per entry.

A truly masterful and simple system here and I love the Stats feature as well. It serves as a great reflective piece, as it sometimes shows emotions and positions that were unavailable to me through paper journals.

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In this era of fear and anxiety in the world, it is so nice to have a place where I can spill all of my frustrations, anger and sadness onto the paper without fear of rebuttal. I can be myself and separate myself from the “stuff” the rest of the world throws at me and get back in touch with the real “me.”

As a writer, this practice had primed my creative pump and not only have I written here daily, but my volume of writing outside of this site has increased tremendously and the quality has improved.

Sometimes like the morning exercise routine (that I have yet to begin) it takes discipline to take those 15-20 minutes to invest in myself and my writing, but I always feel better when I am finished.

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Wipe clean all badges, word-count records, and all-time word-count, letting a person start over without having to create a new account.

It’s very frustrating to break a long streak, and starting again without the prospect of badges along the way feels like a long, bleak road. The reset would keep the account intact, but let the milestones begin again..

Obviously, it would have to be something that you couldn’t trigger by accident, but I think it could really help those who have hit the “why bother?” feeling, when a long streak gets broken.

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Today marks 2,500 days in a row of writing for me, less a number of days when I was traveling and had no online access. This site is the reason I have been able to keep writing. As much as I hate to admit it, the badges, reminders, challenges and statistics have been motivating, especially early on.

I had never kept a journal before, and actually had started one a week before I learned about 750 Words. This became my journal, and it is the place I come to every morning to reflect on what is happening in my life. It is a great refuge, and I deeply appreciate it, and the work Buster and Kellianne have done and continue to do.

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From 750 FAQs, it’s not clear if an account can be suspended or only terminated. It’s looking like I won’t be able to afford the monthly fee anymore— So once my subscription runs out, what happens to my account?

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Writing clarifies. Especially when you don’t feel like it. This is the genius of 750 words. More than once I have started a piece thinking it would be rubbish, only to read the result and be amazed at the clarity of thought it produced. Thanks Kellianne and 750words.

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i believe the arts cannot be measured, it can only be experienced. the same can be said of writing as it too is an art. its intent is to communicate to an audience, whether it’s to many, an individual, or to the self. i cannot say if the content of my morning pages is of any worth to anyone but me. what i can say is that 101 days ago, i didn’t write. and today, with 100 day streak i have written close to 100k words. only a tiny fraction of those words have actually been creative breakthroughs and far fewer of them have furthered the development of the story i’m currently writing… but that for me is well worth it. it’s a road that must be travelled if i am to get anywhere. thank you.

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The year of 2016 is not the best year in my life. Whenever I look back, what I can remember are mostly the setbacks. Every year is like a roller coaster, indeed, but it felt like I kept going down in 2016. However, one day, one of my friend told me that there must be happy moments in everybody’s life, and those simple words of him reminded me that I indeed have happy moments beside those setbacks.

One of the happy moments in 2016 is the day I started writing on 750words.com. I was mostly not in a good state of mind for the second half of the year, but 750words.com helped me to go through the days, everyday. There were times when I was confused, anxious, nervous, or scared, and 750words.com relieve those depressing emotions. There were times when I couldn’t trust anybody, so I decided to “talk to myself” through 750words.com. It has been my sanctuary, my secret escape, especially when I thought I had nowhere to go.

I have a good expectation for this year, and having a positive mind is a good way to start the year, right? I will try to continue writing everyday. Let’s see what surprises this year has prepared for me. Happy writing for all 750words.com writers out there!

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I’m back at 750 words after a two or three year break….I can’t remember. In the last four days I’ve written over 6000 words. I love this site because I have so much stuck inside of me, and I can put it all down here without someone telling me “you talk too much”. I am “too much” of a lot of things, big feelings, big deep conversations, big hair (haha), but most of all big dreams. I listened to the dream killers so long in my life…not any more. I’m going to fulfill some dreams, which include writing, photography, travel, cooking…I think I love this quote the most about writing “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you” Maya Angelou. I am in that agony sometimes, I don’t want the stories to be untold any more.

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UGH! I was so close to reaching 365 journal entries! Last week, on Day 303, I wrote 430 words, stopped to take a nap, woke up, and forgot to finish the entry. It was a valuable lesson though. I took a day off to recover from the feeling of discouragement. I realized how much writing on this site has come to mean to me—how my day doesn’t feel complete without it, how I need daily brain dumps, how I have come to solve problems by writing through them, and how much a writing practice means to me. I love this site so much.

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This site has helped to focus my thoughts, expel my anxiety and energize my other projects. For awhile I was beginning each entry with a haiku, which was sometimes annoying when I wanted to just jump in and vent, but the enforced focus actually became a calming process that unplugged me from the world before entering the world of 750 words. I set a goal of writing a thousand haikus and after a few years I think I surpassed that number. Maybe there are only 15 good ones but hey! the act of writing a daily haiku was facilitated by my daily journal habit. I also LOVE the little compressed word data from each entry that is like some freaky distilled poem in and of itself. Thank you for this wonderful site. If I were super rich I would pay you guys to make it free again and get high school kids everywhere started on it. Thank you thank you thank you.

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Hi, I am back on 750 words after a break of more than a year. I tried to keep up the writing habit on my own but it gradually faded away. Now I am making a new commitment but I realise it will be a long time before I see a new badge. How about a ‘revenant’ badge for people making a new start, perhaps after a streak of thirty days?

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I cancelled my 750words account a while ago in a cost-cutting exercise, but found that I missed it and came crawling right back. It’s an important part of my routine

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I have been getting up at 6:00 and writing 750 words before doing anything else – due to schedule changes I have to write later on Wednesdays – last Wednesday I felt incomplete all day, and realised in the afternoon that I hadn’t been able to start the day with 750 words – i’ve established a habit! I was so thrilled to discover that! It’s the first habit I’ve consciously set up – thanks Buster and Kellyanne

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“It’s not easy writin’ about nothing”, I think it was Patti Smith who started her M Train book with a line, something like that. It true but trying to find 750 meaningful words does make me look at the world more attentively and for that I’ll have another cup of coffee. Thank you.

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I am so grateful how I am growing a daily desire to write because of 750words.com. I thought about just doing this in Word, but I love knowing there are so many other people with the same desire here. This is so encouraging. Thank you.

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I just googled an “online journal” but did not expect to find anything as awesome as this. My favorite features are the metadata (absolutely brilliant idea) and the simplicity of the system. I simply love it. Thank you!

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As a screenwriter this has been he most useful website that I have ever come across. It motivates you to get up and start writing. Once you make it a habit you will never go back. My current screenplay is shaping up great now as I eliminate all the distractions and thoughts in my mind by writing 750 words each and every day!

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Having finished 2016 with only two sick days of not writing, I am so proud and love how 750words is the first thing I do, after coffee, in the morning. Thank you for keeping this site vital and so good for so many of us!

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37 days straight and counting. I now look forward to starting my day by writing. Some days are struggles, but I find a way to get one word at a time on the page, and eventually I have done it again. Love this site.

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I had a streak over 1400 days until I carelessly broke it. I still keep daily journals of 750 words, but locally. The journals are still something very important, so I have this site to thank for this habit.

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Im trying to write evrey day with yoga before.. and this is my second day and I feeling so good it’s like my mind are so openely,, thank you so much you being here.. this site given me more push of everything…

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Thank you for giving me a goal to get me writing again! Earning badges and watching my streak lengthen helped me complete NaNoWriMo 2016 and provided me the incentive needed to become the writer I now know I an be

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Please can you add options for first line indentation in paragraphs, and x1.5 and x2.0 line spacing.

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I have written for 1470 days in a row, except for some vacation days. This site is the center of whatever spiritual practice i may have.. I live to articulate what i am feeling. The clearer i express myself, the clearer my feelings become. I become more real to myself.