The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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So I fell off the streak after my first 111 days, to say I am beyond irritated with myself doesn’t even come close. There’s a but, though and it’s a good one. Normally I would spiral into a slump of despondency and would see no point in carrying on, but I’ve come back today and got right back on it because 750 words has become part of my life and has helped me grow. I now finally, finally get what Joan Didion said about writing to understand what you think. Thanks 750 Words – you’re stars!

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I am not writing a novel or a great blog post most days. I am just trying to get my thoughts in order. In that way this is the best 5 bucks I spend every month. I take a few minutes a day to make sure my brain is thinking what I want it to think and move onto a great day!

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750words reminds me that I am a writer. In 4 years of being here, I have yet to write my daily quota for a 30 day streak. I used to feel bad about this. But now I just let my membership be a reminder that this is where my heart belongs – communicating in the written word and other mediums. I work outside the home at a job that is increasing in responsibility and possibly will become a partnership. I have two 20-somethings that aren’t launched and struggling to support themselves. I am also the main caregiver for my fiance (7 nights, 4 days), basically the days I’m not at work. I’m always on the go, moving, doing, with no time to just STOP and SIT at my computer and WRITE. This moment is a rarity because I woke up ahead of my fiance which usually doesn’t happen. Sometimes when the day is done, I might have a few minutes that I can sit down, but I’m so exhausted, I just want my head to hit the pillow. 750 words reminds me that even when I don’t sit down at the keyboard regularly, I AM STILL A WRITER, and I WILL get these words onto paper eventually.

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Something about journaling makes the planets of my life align, and I have been aware of this for decades. It hasn’t made me any more diligent in pursuing this life-affirming practice—until I found 750words.com. The badges are just freakin’ silly, yet they drive me to go for one more, one more, one more. I’m an addict in the most positive kind of way. And… I watch the planets of my life align in ways that are seemingly unrelated to 750 words. But that’s how magic works.

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Something about journaling makes the planets of my life align, and I have been aware of this for decades. It hasn’t made me any more diligent in pursuing this life-affirming practice—until I found 750words.com. The badges are just freakin’ silly, yet they drive me to go for one more, one more, one more. I’m an addict in the most positive kind of way. And… I watch the planets of my life align in ways that are seemingly unrelated to 750 words. But that’s how magic works.

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Something about journaling makes the planets of my life align, and I have been aware of this for decades. It hasn’t made me any more diligent in pursuing this life-affirming practice—until I found 750words.com. The badges are just freakin’ silly, yet they drive me to go for one more, one more, one more. I’m an addict in the most positive kind of way. And… I watch the planets of my life align in ways that are seemingly unrelated to 750 words. But that’s how magic works.

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SO GLAD I joined just in time for NaNoWriMo and I LOVE that it alerts me when I’ve met the daily NaNoWriMo word goal, heck yes! Love this so much, thank you for this site <3

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Yet again in my quest for the magical 500th day, I have stumbled along the way, making it into the 300th something for the second time. That said, I simply will pick up my keyboard and try, try again, as there is something magical about coming here and pouring 750 + words out on the page each day. A toast to all of us that “oops,” then give ourselves a kick of oh, darn, then get right back up and start a new streak.

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I would like to see headings on the days’ page that I can name myself so when I am looking for a particular scene or idea I have written I can find it without having to click through each page manually to see what I wrote as a heading. Maybe color coding to start with where I could choose from 12 different colors and the X used to say the day was complete could be different colors?. A legend page where I could assign the subject or world the color is associated with could also be helpful. I use this website to do all my writing then I copy and paste it back to whichever word processor I am using but I am always searching through all the pages. Thanks.

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I am an aspiring author and with the help of this system, I have begun a journey of writing every day. It was a laborsome task in the beginning and I had to push myself to build the habit but now it is part of my daily routine. I now feel like I have turned the corner and this is part of the overall system I am using to modify my life. I am now a writer.

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I’m a Forever Phoenix. I’ve been writing here for six years now, and only twice have I managed to reach Pterodactyl — the second time, just today! I always blow it somewhere between 150 and 190. Nevertheless, 750 Words had become an indispensable part of my life. Writing helps me sort through all kinds of things, see patterns, and just generally clear my mind.

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with splitting my writing, a little in the morning and a little more in the evening. It’s working well for me so far; I can capture the strange thoughts and ideas that float through my brain before I’ve really jumped into my busy day, then later reflect on everything that happened. I kind of miss (to a surprising degree!) the “uninterruptible” stars I used to get most of the time, but I’m finding the balance of beginning and ending my day with writing to be much more valuable.

Thank you for such an inspired, inspiring site!

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After years of being registered on here… I think I finally understood the idea of writing three pages a day. Funny really! Just want to thank you for being here and such a nice and clean page to dumb a load of crap on to get going with the day ;-)

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750 words has changed my life. I needed this platform for so many reasons. I’m so glad it exists and am happy to pay the $5 a month to have the outlet!

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I like starting my day with 750 words because it frees my mind so it can sing with the birds. When I first wake up, my mind is like a restless and waterless place, but after 750 words, it is swept and put in order.

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I, too, like the idea of badges for completed days but also a way to indicate how many times I’ve completed the various streak badges. It seems I’ve been unable to get past a 15 day streak since I started in 2012 and I think seeing a little counter on the streak badges would be inspiring, not just as a carrot, because it means we get the badge again (sort of) but because it would be a bit of a stick, too, to see just how many times I’ve tried lol! I’m actually really curious to see how many times I’ve got to those lower ones over the years!

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This site helped me with my fear of the blank page. After completing the October challenge I now have the confidence I could write any day about anything with no doubts.

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It finally happened. I missed October 29th. My first absent day since July 2012.

So I’ve picked myself up, and started again. Because this is a habit now, part of the rhythm of my life, and I am happy about that. Sure, I liked seeing the numbers go up. But I’m also happy to know that I didn’t actually need the numbers to go up.

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Better sync. I lost writing data a couple times by loading another empty tab when I had a full one somewhere else.

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this is a pretty cool service, motivate to train writing skill, ideally for me, exactly what I was looking for. (Alex G like it :), read, write and train your brain with Readlax – https://www.readlax.com/)

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First, completed days is an item that is already tracked on our stats page, but does not have any badges associated with it. Here are potential levels for completed days: 7, 30, 100, 365, 500, 750, 1,100, 1,500, 2,000+. We can use different modes of transportation (crawl, walk, run, bike, canoe, car, train, fly, spaceship) as the badge theme.

Second, I’d rather have a completed day badge beside my name, showing completed progress rather than a streak badge that may end because I was travelling. It’s a more helpful indicator of progress for those that cannot write every single day.

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Liked the different color bars in the bar chart the “View Today’s Stats” page. The coloured bars were up for a few days, now they’re back to mono colours (blue only).

The different colour bars were a nice touch. Bring them back!!!

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Each day, you can choose to write based on a pre-selected prompt. Special stats for each prompt (e.g. how many writers used it, the kind of responses it drew). Maybe take suggestions for prompts from site users; if yours is selected, you get a free month.

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I would absolutely love being able to format my writing. I sometimes use this as a space to organize thoughts or just to blurt out a ton of ideas and there have been a lot of times where I’ll go into past writings and my lists have transformed into a mash of words strung together. I’m sure you’ve gotten this before but being able to enable markdown would make the formatting function a little richer, and I’m sure would be useful for those of us who occasionally export a piece we wrote to use in a blog. Thanks so much, I love the site!

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There’s no such thing as too much security. This is the one feature that will make or breaks my continued use of this site.