The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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I think this is a fabulous site. Small improvements like being able to bold certain words, use numbering and bullets, change font color when I want to would help me find nuggets I want to use in the future easier.

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I think this is a fabulous site. Small improvements like being able to bold certain words, use numbering and bullets, change font color when I want to would help me find nuggets I want to use in the future easier.

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I am amazed to see that I have hit a million words. When I started using this site the idea of writing that many words did not seem possible. We throw around YouTube views and athlete’s salaries and a million can feel small, but typing words on a screen, every day, just 750 at a time? That is a very tall mountain to move. But yesterday I did it and now I am going to use a bunch of my coffee cups to share three thoughts about how this site has changed me. The primary way that I am a different writer today is that I do not fear writing tasks in my work. I know that I will turn to this blank page and generate a draft. Then those drafts go into Evernote for editing and polishing. Now those parts of the writing process I still do not enjoy, but what a difference it is to know that I can clear the first hurdle in the process, and there is a universe between no draft and a first draft. I am on my way.

Second, this is the strongest habit I have ever formed. My day’s list of tasks is not finished until my words are done. I often write at night rather than the morning, but I write. My longest streak was over 500 days, interrupted by a trip to Australia, and I am currently on another 300 day run. Like the best of habits, my mindset has flipped. Where it once felt odd to write daily, it now feels strange not to. It’s an unsettled feeling in my gut that has to be addressed.

Lastly, my proudest writing accomplishment in these million words is writing the toast I gave for my daughter and her new husband at their wedding six weeks ago. They announced their engagement last May, and I had a draft done in June. I even remember writing it in a Princi bakery in Seattle on a warm June afternoon, the patio windows open as I typed away on my Surface. With each draft my message became clearer. In the fall the groom’s father asked if I would toast both the bride and groom. More drafts, more emerging clarity. Sometimes I revised drafts in Evernote, other times I would just start over again here. I finished the final version at 2:00 in the morning of their wedding day. It was the most important speech of my life and I know in my heart I gave it the best effort I possibly could. Many people have told me how much they liked it, which feels great, but more importantly for me is that I think it revealed the heart of the newlyweds’ relationship as I saw it. It is the best thing I have ever written, and it became that because I rewrote it several times, and I did that because of this site.

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Mel Robbins mentioned this site and I had to check it out for myself. I’ve been here ever since. I used to love to write, but set it aside as frivolous when in fact it’s a necessity. As I move through this journey of building positive, daily habits, this has been the easiest to stick to and the most enjoyable. I love having this time and space just for me and I highly recommend it. Thank you!

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750 words help me brain dump every night, I’m using it to discipline myself and create a habit of writing everynight, then spill this discipline into ot.her areas, i notice i sleep better and my mind is clearer everyday. tonight i had to decide if i wanted to pay and remain a member, after thinking about how much this has been helping me , its a no brainer.

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I love it! I love the tracking and the badges and especially the one-month challenges. Which I did not complete. Hence this pot of coffee. Thank you so much!

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I’ve been a member for two months now. And I still cannot upload my profile photo. I contacted you guys about it and there was a reply that it was a known issue but with no ETA on a fix. This should be something simple to get fixed. I would donate $ or $10 – IF – I knew for sure that it would promise this would get fixed. I plan to continue being a member because I love your website. But it’s hard to sell others on it when something this simple has this glitch.

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I would love to see more badges-I haven’t had one for ages despite writing every day for 65 days!

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Since discovering 750 words, I have written every day and am currently on a 65-day streak. I am not too concerned at this point about the quality of the writing as I know that I can review the writing any time and edit and combine the words into whatever I need them to be, an opinion article, a flash fiction piece or even a short story. I am so grateful for having stumbled upon this brilliant writing tool and have been telling everyone about it since I joined. A fantastic idea, especially for someone like me who needs a little external motivation to complete the things I really want to do.

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I love the streak measuring function of the month but I would love to see a broader view of the full streak or something like an annual view so I could see my whole streak in those beautiful satisfying tick boxes. Kind of keeping in line with Jerry Seinfeld’s use of the calendar with his Don’t Break the Chain habit

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I’m glad I found this place. I have tried to do a journal for a long time. But my mind is quicker then I can write long hand. Maybe that is a good thing in terms of expressing myself but when you write stream of conscious it is best to do it here quickly and let the fingers type the thoughts. It allows for me to go as fast as I get the thought. Much of what I write doesn’t make sense to the stranger and I am ok with that and even I don’t understand. However, to get it out of me instead of floating in my head 24/7 is a good thing. I miss days on occasion. Just too caught up in the early morning and I forget. So I try not to take this as a competition but more a habit a very good habit. I would like to do a challenge one day but I know myself I will make it like a job and then the purpose of writing will be about the challenge and not about getting the gunk out. So for now I just do it as much as possible with the belief that it helps me organize my thoughts better. I love this site. It has helped me to write better and think better. Bravo to the creators. Thank you!

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Still love this site. Am going to take a break for a while because I feel out of words. And now that I have written 100 days in a row, there are few badges left, except marathon ones. I think I’d be tempted to continue writing if there were more mid-range badges available.

And I’m still hoping for an iPad app so I can write when I don’t have internet connection! Thank you for creating this site.

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I would be grand if we could go back and highlight some of the profound ideas that come out during morning pages. (admittedly mine don’t come till the end of a post) Yellow highlighter would make these thoughts stand out. Thanks

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I owe you 20.00 for failing the February Challenge. The extra 3.00 is for a cuppa mud or a cold brew for you guys. Thx

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750 words is a practical and useful way to find out how you feel about something. For instance I just learned a few hours ago that my son-in-law has kidney cancer and the prognosis is that he will have less than 12 months to live. Well of course I feel sad and achey, but what does that mean in my relationship with him and with my daughter. The feelings are more, though. The physical part as well as the emotional part of being healing and supportive…well I will figure that out by writing 750 words. Probably I will revisit this thread often.

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I’m new….44 days in and have not missed a day. It is a great way to clear my head, get stuff down that’s rolling around in my head, and start the day on a positive note. Glad I found it!!!

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Seven months of writing every day, except that one day i forgot :(

Nevertheless I showed up after that, which is a huge personal accomplishment and completely out of character.

I am so grateful for this space – a place to dump my thoughts, tease out ideas, see myself and my patterns clearly, experiment with metaphor, hatch projects – thank you SO MUCH.

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I discovered 750 words and began writing in January. I had used Morning Pages from The Artist’s Way before, but I set the bar too high, 1700 words a day, so it was hard to keep it up! 750 words worked perfectly for me. I started out just writing my thoughts for the day and sometime in the beginning of February, I decided to use it to write the first draft of a novel/play that has been nagging me to write it. And now I have my first 20 pages of that book. I took the February challenge and wrote every day of the month and I will continue this in March. Writing has become a part of my day, one of the things I do before I get to the work I need to do for the day. Thak you! I love 750 Words!

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This has been an extremely difficult and challenging time of my life and 750 words has helped me write whatever comes to my mind about what is going on in my world. And if I don’t feel like writing about the hard stuff, I simple write a short (very short!) story! I have never been this consistent with anything in my life! Thanks 750 words!

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Thinking about it some thought strike my mind: Ever man has his down days. But sometimes it may be the start of a negative though spiral. I had my share of that, but since I started writing every day, the bad days happened but somehow the spiraling into worse days did not happen. Somehow I was able to lift my head up and regain self control and realistic positivism much quicker than before. I think 750 words helped with that!

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I’d love to be able to hide the word count as sometimes I find myself writing to the 750 words and then stopping rather than stopping when I’m done.
Maybe just a button on the writing page to hide the word count and not show a complete pop up unless you unhide it?

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I would love more badges! I like the idea of accomplishing things and the badges help inspire this.

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I would like more text analysis on the frequently used words. I’ve noticed that there are some words I only use once or twice that pop up in my frequently used words.

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Earning the badges was a real encouragement when I first started on 750 words. Now I’m further along and have all the easy wins, it is taking a lot longer to earn the next badge. There’s only so much saying “only three months of writing until the next badge” can do to inspire and motivate.

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So, I am aware this must have been discussed in the past, but anyway, here’s my two cents. I’ve seen how other writers have these beautiful graphs that show their mindset, time orientation and feelings. I understand this only works for anyone writing consistently in English, and I would love if it were possible for me and others who write in different languages to also get these stats. I would be willing to put time myself to forward this. The language is euskara (Basque).

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So, I am aware this must have been discussed in the past, but anyway, here’s my two cents. I’ve seen how other writers have these beautiful graphs that show their mindset, time orientation and feelings. I understand this only works for anyone writing consistently in English, and I would love if it were possible for me and others who write in different languages to also get these stats. I would be willing to put time myself to forward this. The language is euskara (Basque).

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I wrote so little over the last couple of years. Last year was such a pain. Not only was I in the middle of renovations for my home, but I broke my wrist. I was so crushed. But, I went to physio, continued my renos, sold my home and purchased another.

What was in question (and still has been) is my desire to earn a comfortable living from writing. I was not sure I could make a go of this type of life.

To answer that I have 750words.com to thank. Let me go back to last fall. I moved into my new home and became terribly ill. Guess my immune system was pretty low. So fast-forward to December 2019. I was recuperating and rebuilding my strength.

On December 28th, I came home to 750words to begin writing. I joined the challenge in January 2020. I missed 2 days and didn’t meet my full quota on 4 different days, but I see the January challenge as a win for myself. It proved that I do have staying power. Now I have a daily planner and record my writing information. Every day I meet the mark with 750words, I give myself a heart sticker.

I joined the February challenge and am in 19 days. Overall, I have 26 straight days of writing. Woo hoo!.

I didn’t look forward to coming up with 750 words. Though I continued to write, my brain dumps evolved into stories, partial stories, inspired. Nothing New York Times worthy. Yet. No longer do I struggle to find 750 words that make sense. And now, well my dream of writing full-time while living off my earnings is viable.

Never quit. YOU are worth it!

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Some of the greatest authors of all time commit to writing 500 words a day towards a novel and over 10 years produce many great works. Maybe offering a feature that is tailored towards this because it is an incredible format that would help those who struggle to stick to writing to continue to write. Maybe it could be an additional feature or maybe there are those out there who would use that format only. Basically it could look the same but have statistics that are based off not the individual but the story itself.
thank you