The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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A great site! Very encouraging! Seeing other members will help and inspire me to get into the good habit of doing the morning pages (750 words). Thank you

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This morn I’m back after a silence of around 6 weeks. Feels good to do as Keats said and glean those things from my “teaming” brain. Maybe in Nov. I’ll actually make it on to “the wall of amazingness.” Guess it is worth a try. I am truly glad 750 words is here for me to put out whatever words of each day come.

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This site is the best ever. I have always intended to do a journal but always allowed something to keep me from it. This site is easy to use ANYWHERE. I love that I can go back and read previous entries. It also allows me to clear my head on those days when things aren’t going well. I will be doing this for a while. So glad I found you.

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It is good to be back on 750words again after once being a phoenix in 2010. The one thing I am still missing after all those years is being able to write my 750 words in a secure way. I just noticed that https is indeed supported. Maybe it is a good thing to force users to the https site. That way you are always writing secure.

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I highly recommend 750words.com. It made me write daily for almost 2 years with 95% consistency. I’ve never adopted any other habit so quickly!

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750 words has been great at kick starting my creativity. It is the first thing I do every morning and gets my day off to a great start, even when the writing has nothing to do with the rest of the projects I’ll be working on that day.

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I’ve been away for over a month for a variety of reasons. I kept missing days, even days where I’d written things: I was forgetting to paste my words in from GoogleDocs. So, instead of requesting a fix in my streak every two weeks, I thought I’d take a break instead.

And what do you know: I wasn’t writing at the same pace as I used to. I wasn’t writing at all, most days. Just fits and spurts, here and there. I’m getting winded before I hit 1k.

I’m nearly at my one-year anniversary of NaNo15, where I wrote a total of 102k in a single month of prose, and I’m not in any shape to try and do that again. So, I knew I had to come back.

I’ve decided to use all my cups for this note, and signed the contract to write every day in November. I miss the magic of feeling accomplished every day no matter where I am or what I’m up to, because it helps my mood and helps me feel like I can be a Real Writer™. Thanks for being an easy place to come back to, 750. :) Here’s to getting back in shape for the marathon that is NaNoWriMo!

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need encryption and stronger security (this is the feature of penzu that i liked) .

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An excerpt of my pages this lovely morning:

“I feel like I didn’t write for a week—I missed these morning pages quite a bit, considering I just skipped one day. But, like I said before, a broken charger counts as a valid reason to miss a day. Now that I’m back on track, I realize that I don’t want to live without these morning pages anymore; this keeps me sane, mentally strong, exhilarated, and always active in improving my writing skills.”

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I am using the metadata feature (caps:metadata tag) and I would love to be able to export the metadata as a .cvs or some data format, just monthly would be fine. Thank you!

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my writing is very personal (as I’m sure everyone’s is). Anyway this site has been such a gift to me. thank you!

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I used Morning Pages some time ago – maybe in the 1980s or 1990s.. I used to write them by hand then, which became a bit of a chore, particularly with my obscure handwriting. 750 Words has removed the ‘chore’ element, thank heavens.
I’d forgotten how useful morning pages are. Over the past month of so of use, all sorts of helpful stuff has come up – very useful. I’ve carried some of what came up into current or intended work.
It gives me a space each day when I lay aside the tasks of the day and allow myself to imagine and sepeculate about anything. It is really valuable – and no handwriting grind either. Full marks.
I haven’t begun to learn from the daily stats yet so I am looking forward to exploring how to benefit from the stats.

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I followed The Artists Way practice of writing for 3 months about 10 years ago. So it wasn’t too tough to pick up. Writing gives a sense of completion to observations and idle disconnected thoughts. It ought to help me with memory recall of conversations and eadings, as I’ve learned from Benedict Carey’s in “How We Learn.” It’s retrieval practice, a freeform recall that tests my memory within the same day. It leaves my mind less cluttered to get on to the next thing. Almost like the meditative quality of sketching or painting.

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I’ve recently come back to 750 Words after a 2 year break, and wow, have I needed this site. Writing here brings a clarity to my mind that has been sorely needed.

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I like the idea of going about my day and unlocking secret badges that no one has ever seen before, to create an air of excitement among the habitual users. It gets so mundane to see the same badges next to the names every day.. Flamingos, Eggs, Albatross galore. Sometimes a few others, but rarely anything new that makes you sit up, take notice and say, “What’s THAT and how do I get one?!” Imagine if you unlocked a secret badge. You didn’t even know you were going to get one, and bam! Here’s something new that no one else has yet. Perhaps some of the secret badges could be limited edition – only available for the first 10 (or 15 or 25, etc) people to do this certain thing or type on this certain day. I’m not sure what they would be for – I leave that to you. I just like the idea of never knowing what could be around the corner.

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cheers

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I used 750 Words very sporadically in the beginning—tried it when I was going through The Artist’s Way, but found that handwriting was more meaningful then. I started & stopped many times since then; started up again last fall, and recently got the Pegasus badge for 365 days. I write whatever comes into my mind—total brain dump, usually in the evening. I think it’s helped tame my anxiety.

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Thanks for the simplicity and ad-free experience, 750words. And thanks to the other patrons for sharing their enthusiasm for writing.

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I love what this site has done for my life: it gives me clarity, allows me to name what I feel, gives me a place where I can play, where I can be myself without anyone to judge me. I feel so much better after I write. Keep writing everybody, just keep writing!! :)

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I think if you break your streak which sometimes happens to be able to build up a little stack of badges as you go through them again would be good.

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I am so grateful for this site. I can’t wait to log on and write each day. I write things I can’t say aloud to anyone and it helps me work out my problems and frustrations.

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Best birthday present ever. Thank you for being a place of hope and miracles, where I can write myself into a rare sense of peace.

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We could have bold, italics and underlining for words and phrases we want to put into our entries. The paragraph spacing could be lines drawn between paragraphs.

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I would love a way to have an app or some way to have offline features. Most of the time I am writing my 750words in a Google Doc, so that I can post it later. (I write during my commute and I am underground the whole time). However, I would forget to post it, and I lose my streak.

I really there will be someone to step up and develop this so people like me can continue with their streak.

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Writing everyday has done me wonders. After I let go from trying to edit and censor myself, I saw how much I improved. I went from 40-50 wpm to 60. Over the last week I saw myself improving further! Today I reached 68 wpm. My entries have gone from 15-20 minutes to reach 750 words to 11 minutes. And it’s all thanks to 750 words. I cannot be thankful enough. It’s given me a place to push forward. I love it all the more for helping me have a place to write, to dump my thoughts, to practice, and to use whenever I need it.

Thanks for everything!

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You can use 1 cup per month as your Free Miss Day so if you are participating in the month long challenge and miss a day you can continue on.

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I just got my early bird badge. This shows me how much I’ve changed in my life this last month to turn things around in order to do what I need to be healthier and happier. This includes writing 750 at day at least. I stopped writing here for a while because I forgot how much it helps me. I’m really grateful to continually have this tool to write and can’t wait till I hit 250,000 words! Thanks for keeping 750 Words alive!