The Friends & Members of 750 Words

I’m grateful for this site and that I have many ‘delicious cups of patronage’ left to give. On the days I’m really not feeling it, this site helps me start my day on a slightly more positive note. This site has made an impact.

Asian language character count

I’ve tried the morning pages a few times in the past, but like everyone else, I couldn’t keep it up. For my Xth attempt, I knew I needed some kind of setup, some platform that would help me keep myself motivated and so found 750 words. I love how it works, the system itself, and its communal feel and everything is great! Except for one problem for me which is…
I write in Japanese. In Japanese, spacing is not used between words so I just go on inputting characters. The only time 750 words counts my text as one word is when I go on to a new paragraph!
When I signed up, I remember there was an option to choose if I was writing in English or in another language. The word count system probably works with other alphabet-based languages, but not with many Asian languages, unfortunately.
So that means I cannot get an X for completing my three pages, and cannot fully utilize the features, including the monthly challenges, which really cuts the motivational aspect by half. I considered using some other character count tool and then pasting 750 words of lorem ipsum text, but not having to do that manually should be the beauty of this kind of platform…
I have looked into what Japanese speakers are saying online about what would be the equivalent of three pages of English in Japanese characters (I also wonder how people came up with 750 words and how it was justified); some say 1200 characters, some say 1000. I wish there was an option to choose the type of word/character count, and an option to choose how many characters as well.
So on my screen now, it says my free trial is ending in a little less than three weeks. I do not expect the feature will be added by then, but here is my cup of coffee hoping that maybe it will be taken into consideration for the next feature addition. I would love to continue writing on this platform, thank you for your attention!

An iPhone/iPad app

This outbreak has put me in a mental funk. Having 750 words made me commit to writing everyday, it helps when I am feeling anxious about the uncertainty of it all. Negative brain dumping helps while strengthening my habit loop to journal daily! Viewing my stats also helps me tweak my mindset. To everyone who wants to try journaling, begin today!

I was the kid who loved math and science, I taught myself algebra at 6. Writing anything was my bete noire all through school. Then I got an English teacher Nora T. Bxxxxxx in high school who wrote on a paper “This is so bad it’s almost funny”. I was humiliated. Then came the day I wanted to write a book, I have struggled to get it done. Mel Robbins recommended you. I was saved. I write every day and its easy. Thank you for this refuge, you have saved many I am sure. If I can do it, anybody can.

750 words is a godsend to me. Knowing that I will lose my streak is just the motivation I need to make sure that I stick with it every day. Even when things are tough, I get my writing done and that always feels amazing. I wouldn’t be the writer I am today without 750 words!

750 words made me realize that it feels good to write. Earlier I used to dread the task of writing. This site made the process frictionless. I also felt that writing helped when I felt lost/ confused or lacked clarity. This site is great and I’ll definitely recommend it to friends who want to try the morning pages.

Removal of Rating Feature

This is a kind request to remove the Rating feature. Only recently did I notice that there was a Rating to my daily entries. What a shock it was to see what seems to be a censorship feature to the site.
I was greatly saddened by seeing a rating of R when there is not one syllable of “violence” or “sexual content” in my entry. Haiku love poems. Celebration of life. Gratitude for beauty. My writing has certainly changed since I noticed the Rating after every entry.

I tried to see if it is optional even, but there doesn’t seem to be an opt out of the censorship / Rating feature.

Wondering what the purpose is?

Perhaps this has been addressed already.

For the first time ever I am seriously considering leaving the site. Have been so happy & content here. Wrote my first Haiku poems in decades today!

I wonder if anyone reads this.

With care.

Children have a huge affinity for new things. It attracts them like a magnet. But like when a magnet meets a piece of steel unchecked the magnet might shatter. As adults we first have to keep them afar, then to cushion them from meeting and coach them how to approach life safely but without fear.

More badges for accomplishments

I really don’t have a lot of suggestions for improvement for 750 Words, but sure, it would be fun to have some more cute badges to earn. :)

I am a super anxious person and as a busy mum of three and a business owner, I am juggling a lot of plates in the air. I love to sit down first thing in a morning and dump everything on my mind – my worries, things I need to do, insites that I have come to me etc and then I feel like I can then start my day with a clean slate. I never start with a plan in mind, I just start typing what is in my head at that moment and then anything else that pops in goes down too. I have only been doing it for 7 days so it’s not quite a habit but I think that it will soon become one. I am quite a competitive person, who likes an end goal in mind and so the badges are really good for motivating me :)

An iPhone/iPad app

I would love to have access to an iphone/ipad app for this site. Increasing accessibility to this habit-building practice would be fantastic, thank you.

Secure server for writing

I’ve been a member since 2011, and hope to be more active this year. I appreciate the simplicity of the website but I am indeed interested in a more secure server for my writing. Happy writing- from gal sitting and writing away.

I just signed up for 750 Words and became a patron. There are tons of sites out there telling you what you have to do to become a good writer; one day, I counted 22 that actually had sent me info on my email feed – mostly unsolicited. So I decided to take an hour and peruse them. 21 of them had spelling and syntax errors, which I cannot abide. If you’re gonna tell me what I need to do, I hope it comes across as “Do as I do; do as I say.” LOL

But I digress. This site looks to me as a great catalyst to get my writing going. I write every day, but because of other interests, capabilities, responsibilities and whatnot, I haven’t followed through. Everyone tells me I write well – I’ve done standup comedy, many business keynote speeches and seminars, articles for my craft, etc., etc. – but nothing for ME. Something towards some kind of legacy.

So here goes…

save a good idea - my bucket list

I was writing my first note today and there was a sentence I wrote that gave me an idea I wanted to place in a bucket list – good thought, good idea, which I could easily receive- after all my rambling. It would work like a separate form, where we could copy and paste our best thoughts, phrases etc for fast retrieval. It does not have to have any specific order. Just a blank page would do. You can then improve this to notes or something.

iA writer integration

iA writer lets you publish to wordpress/medium/etc. Would be neat if I could write in their editor and get my streak information from there. Maybe an API could be exposed to pull current stats like current streak, total words. And another to save/update today’s writing. Of course, this is a huge integration task between two different products from different people/companies, but I’d love for something like this.

Sitting down on this website has helped my writing immensely! It gets my brain moving and story lines that I didn’t even know where in there come out on 750 words. I’m so glad I stumbled across it on Pintrest!! It is nice to have a place that I know I can just dump my thoughts on and it will be saved for my eyes only. Thanks a bunch!!

More text analysis

The text analysis aspect is fascinating to me, I would love to see more of it as well as refinement of it. For example, it seems as though “them” is not considered as a singular person pronoun referring to a nonbinary person, and while it makes sense that is not the most common use for it, it would be interesting to see that as an option for the text analysis.

This is day 1523 of my streak of writing here every single day. I can hardly believe it. Back in 2016, a friend started talking about this site. All I could think was, I don’t need a website to get me to write. Eventually, though, she wore me down and I tried it. And I’ve been here every day since.

I didn’t know that I had the discipline to write that regularly. But here I am, having written over 1,269,000 words! That’s over a million! My husband keeps asking how many books do I have in all those words!

I didn’t think I would last long at all on this site. But it was the thrill of the badges, and now I have 19 of them. But the time between badges gets longer, the longer I write here. I checked earlier this year and there are only 5 badges that I haven’t earned. Sooo, I decided that this month, May, I would earn the NaNo badge. That’s 50,000 words in one month! I’m on track to make it, too! With just under 20,000 words remaining after today, this 18th day of May.

I am really grateful for this site for the discipline and the encouragement it has given me. Which was obviously always in me, just needed an accountability system!

Thank you!

More badges for accomplishments

Secure server for writing

Less features - more whitespace

I’m thrilled with this idea and using the tool. I find all the frills distracting and would be happy if you stick with the basic word processor and the daily writing journal boxes at the top. I appreciate the intention to hook me into the larger community of writers, but my writing habit is personal and I’m not interested in being ‘social’ here, as much as I’m interested in features that keep me accountable to myself. Thanks for the great work and inspiration to become a writer.

I find this concept of this so great. When i did this regularly i did see changes in my emotions. Writing is good for the soul and i am looking forward to getting back into it!.

More text analysis

I adore this feature, but I want MORE!

More badges for accomplishments

During this truly difficult time, 750 Words has been my lifeboat. At the end of the day I can pour out all of my emotions… I can rant, swear, daydream, and imagine. It is a journal that is always there in the palm of my hand. No pens to find, no notebooks to carry. Just knowing that I am sharing this space with hundreds of other humans going through very similar things – purging our pain in separate harmony… somehow that really helps.

I am grateful for 750 Words. It keeps me sane.

Two Hundred days today!
I have been a member of 750 words since 2011 and finally managed to pull off a 200 day streak.
It was amazing Providence that I had started a streak well before COVID-19 turned our world upside down. This made it much easier to keep going even with all the kids home and my creative spark dried up by anxiety.
Writing my daily successes and gratitude is one of the few things that has kept me even-keeled these last 9(!) weeks of isolation.
Thank you Buster and Kellianne!

Kid friendly version

Hi, I am loving your website and the accountability it creates to keep me writing. Thanks!
I have a daughter who is keen to do some writing and I am wondering if there could be a kid friendly version where they could earn the same badges but by writing a smaller number of words. For many elementary school kids 250 a day would be a feat and then perhaps in junior high it could go to 500 and in high school up to 750. I think this could inspire future generations of writers!

Kid friendly version

Hi, I am loving your website and the accountability it creates to keep me writing. Thanks!
I have a daughter who is keen to do some writing and I am wondering if there could be a kid friendly version where they could earn the same badges but by writing a smaller number of words. For many elementary school kids 250 a day would be a feat and then perhaps in junior high it could go to 500 and in high school up to 750. I think this could inspire future generations of writers!

Getting close to my 30 day streak! Grateful for 750 words as I begin my week. It helps me find a semblance of clarity in my thoughts and process my worries & hopes for the time ahead. Thanks again for a great site!