The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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750 Words has been a Godsend. It has given me a space to keep my thoughts and musings, to unload, to be free. And, since I write at least 750 words a day for breakfast, I am not intimidated by my other daily writing goals.

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Integrate AI into 750words to enable personality profiling, sentiment analysis, etc.

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Create a meta game- or meta-gamify the reward mechanics

Like increase the rewards for streaks and consistency, that way it will not only encourage writers to come back but also will keep them committed to the site- and writing!

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Bypass PayPal, allow credit card payment. I am unable to get into my PayPal account to change my credit card information because they have an old email address AND phone number. I have spend the better part of three frustrating days trying to fix the problem to no avail, and because I cannot fix the problem with PayPal, I no longer have access to 750 Words, which I LOVE using.

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I have been working on a sci-fi YA novel for over a year now, hitting a few peaks of success and lots of valleys that slumped… But this week 750words has helped me reignite my fervor and help me celebrate every writing day as a success. This week a lone I have written over ten thousand words. Even though only a third of them have been for my novel, every word has counted!

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The idea to have a separate section for NanoWrimo! This was described in detail by Rose on Wed July 27.

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First and foremost, I am so grateful for 750 words. It has been such an essential part of getting my writing going and I’m afraid to think of where I would be without it. In a way it feels wrong to ask for anything more. But that being said, I have an idea that I think would be extremely helpful to me and a large portion of people on this site. Would it be feasible to have a separate section to log into during NanoWrimo that is separate from you 750 words goal and is instead 1,667 words which is the daily amount of words needed to get to 50,000? I would also think many people would be willing to pay extra for this feature that month. Or even donate toward the efforts of getting something like this going? Just a thought. Because during my Nanowrimo, I still want to be doing my morning pages separate from that. And I want to be able to clearly count my 1667 words and then see how this climbs in my achievement of 50,000 words. It also is helpful that at the end of the month you could copy and paste it into one document and have your Nanowrimo novel. Because 750 words, with its badges and ways of keeping track has been so completely life changing for me as far as my writing goes, I think a NanoWrimo would help patrons to complete something that seems so unreachable.

Thanks for your time and all that you do,

Rose

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Please o please! an iPad app that can run offline will be most desirable.

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I’ve been using 750words on and off for some time now, and while I may not maintain my routine without hiccups, I am very grateful to have a safe place to keep on trying. No judgements. No expectations. Just a fun, happy place to be creative with words.

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750 Words has inspired me to keep track of my thoughts and feelings privately, the way I used to journal for myself before I became a professional writer. Practicing my Morning Pages on a daily basis has really cleared my thoughts for the day, and helps me to keep track of what I’m thinking and feeling (and frustrated about!) so I can ponder and then let things go, to get more work done. Even though I have been practicing daily writing this year, I find that 750 Words helps spur me on with its daily reminders, the fun badges I can earn, and that challenge to write something new every day. Thank you for creating such a fun and useful site! I’ve been recommending it to all of my writer pals.

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750 words is central to my life. I do not meditate, since i do not want to be calm or centered all the time or even to aspire to be centered all the time. I want every crazy, loving, hateful, chaotic, angry, fearful and frightening emotion i have and with that the supreme ability to act with a shrewd kindness and a cunning empathy or simply choosing which emotions i wish to share and how i wish to share them.

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This site has held up a standard for me to aspire to. My consistency has been awful. A smattering of days where I actually write and maybe 2 or 3 days a month when I might hit 750 or get close. I’ve noticed almost a resistance to sitting down at my computer and writing blog articles or working on my book or participating in my groups. It’s almost like I’m hiding in my cave right on the edge of crossing over into my future as a writer, afraid to take the next step in my journey. I could really use a couple of buddies to have more interaction with supporting each other in our growth and writing projects. If this is of interest to you, especially women (I’m a huge champion of womens development and reaching our potential as individuals), please email me at [email protected] OR [email protected] and let’s talk.

If it’s helpful, my writing currently centers around personal development, holistic health, self-care, massage, disability and caregiving issues. I live in California on PST. I’m 55 and have 3 adult children, 1 or 2 of whom are still in my home (depending on circumstances!!).

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Most of my donations to this site were occasioned by my failure to complete a monthly challenge. Consistency is a daily struggle for me, and the fact that I’ve only successfully finished the monthly challenge once is evidence of my inconsistent nature. Yet here I am, writing a note to thank 750 Words! Why? While 750 Words does bear witness to my failures, it offers a way for me to work through those failures and to clear my mind of its self-deprecating voices. 750 Words is a faithful sounding board: the days that I write here tend to be happier days for me. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to dust myself off and to try again, 750 Words!

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Well, while I was riding home from a trip to Eugene, Oregon aboard the Amtrak Coast Starlight, I came up with a great idea for a mystery novel. Then I realized that it was going to be a bit hard to write, because I had let my 750 Words subscription lapse and had completely gotten out of the daily writing habit. To be fair to myself, it’s because I started art journaling and focusing on sketching, which is also really fun and good for your brain. But I want to get back into writing now. So I’m hoping my daily prompts will help me get back on track (pardon the pun!).

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In my free trial time, I wrote more than 20,000 words, most of them on unique topics. These mental dumps onto the screen really helped me work through so many hard things going on in the world and in my little corner of it. Quite therapeutic, and occasionally I stumbled on a theme for an essay or article. Thanks for a safe place to write my ramblings.

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I like the idea of receiving a unicorn badge for some kind of something unexpectedly. No set goal, just one day BOOM a unicorn comes into the collection of badges.

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I love the badges, very motivating in a nerdy kind of way. I suggest a new feature in which one can earn repeated badges (cheetah speed, for instance) and have them show up stacked on top of each other.

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My brain is a messier and less happy place when I’m not using 750 words.

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the analysis stuff is cool. i like the mood pie charts. One thing I have been trying to track is my Losada ratio Positive/Negative affect ratio. While there is some discussion of the math behind the exact calculation, the idea is sound. Sort of like the PANAS ratio also. there are different ways to calculate it. It is pretty clear that if you have a > 3/1 ratio of positive to negative you are in a good space, less and you are not.

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Badges inspire me soooo much and push me to keep writing, so I would really love if there were some more <3

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I stumbled upon ‘750 Words’ today and after one session, I’ve joined up to be a member. How could I resist venturing over to PayPal to commit to the lowly $5 a month fee? That’s less than I would pay for a vanilla soy latte; less than the cost of yet another self-help book; hundreds less than the cost of a therapy appointment or anxiety meds.

After completing Julia Cameron’s creative workshop “The Artist’s Way” a total of 1.75 times and finding her morning pages crucial to jump starting my day, I know the value of stream-of-consciousness writing. I’ve read and reread all of Natalie Goldberg’s books on writing and I’ve done ‘writing practice’ for decades. But now encumbered with painful arthritic hands, I have to resort to typing my thoughts and out of all the online tools available that I have attempted to employ and failed at continuing to use, ‘750 Words’ is the one program that meets my need to write, to purge the jumble of thoughts in my brain, to make sense of occurrences, to forge ahead in my pursuit of living a creative life.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Buster and Kellianne!

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Hi,

Today I hit 1.5 million words. Hard to believe. Any way this can become a badge? Next, the thousand days badge…

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I love this website. It feels refreshing to just unwind and type whatever I think for a few minutes each day. I’ve started to learn touch-typing so that one day I’ll be good enough to type much faster on here. I’ll be supporting this site whenever I have change to spare (still a student) because I think it is wonderful. Extremely grateful for this space.