The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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I have been using this tool for many years now. I am moving away from 750words in order to simplify the number of tools I use daily, but I wanted to say thank you for the great blessing this has been in my life. This habit has given me clarity, peace, and productivity. Many thanks!!!

Karen

An iPhone/iPad app

I write almost exclusively on my iPad to get away from my work setup/desk. A native app instead of a tab in a browser would help me shut away more distractions and focus on just writing.

I am so grateful for this wonderful site. It helps me clear my head, it helps me get things processed, and it’s become a wonderful ritual. Please keep this site open forever – it makes such a huge difference. Thank you, profoundly.

Different levels of monthly donation

If this feature already exists, that’s great! However, I have tried to find a way to increase my monthly membership giving (and have a higher amount come out every month than currently does) and I can’t find how to do this. I know I can make a one-time donation, but it would be cool if those of us who are able could contribute monthly at higher levels and automate that contribution. Thanks for your consideration!

I came across this site after six months of doing morning pages the old fashioned way. I have been pleasantly surprised by how many words I have written. I kind of aspire to a book but didn’t think I could write enough. This site has proven otherwise. The quality can only improve with practice so thank you. I have migrated to v2 and signed up for a year. I am hooked.

750 words has been a game changer, i am so pleased I found the site. I have recently given up being a fixed hours, out of the house employee, to go 100% freelance and work from home. Creating a new work structure has been harder than I expected, what with being a bit lazy and not good in the mornings. The commitment of writing 750 words first thing each day sets me up for steady progress. It stops my inner critic getting the upper hand before I’ve even begun.
I also love all the pretty badges so please keep making new ones of those.
thank you for all you do and hi to all my fellow writers. Never though I would call myself that.

Fonts for new version

I haven’t upgraded to the new beta version yet. I’m not generally an early adopter in the tech arena. I normally let Apple work out their kinks on millions of others before leaping in (unless it’s a security issue). I figure most problems eventually rise to the surface.

My main feature request involves the font. Our current font has a vaguely hand-written sensibility which is fine as far as it goes. The most significant issues that have been noted by many over time relates to the interpretation of special characters.

Suggestion #1: Standard keyboard special characters such as [ ( , ; : ‘ “ ? / ! @ # $ % ^ & * ~ ` _ – + = | | { } ) ] that are nearly universal on computer keyboards should be accommodated and accurately transcribed and recorded. I’m always somewhat surprised and annoyed when using an apostrophe is translated into a code.

Suggestion #2: I love to use additional characters which usually require a combination of keystrokes. My favorites are bullet points • (Mac OS Option 8) and long dash –– (Mac OS Option _). Those would be a bonus to those suggested under #1 which I think are a top priority.

Suggestion #3: Choice of fonts. Allowing users to select their fonts seems like a relatively easy upgrade opportunity. Some users might be so in love with using a particular font while they type and in their subsequent analytical summary that they might be willing to pay some extra amount per month to have that option. I’m thinking you pick just a handful of fonts that offers particular formal aesthetics like Helvetica, Times New Roman, Gill Sans, Courier, etc. I’m not suggesting offering dozens of font choices. Rather, I think five or six choices would be wonderful to have. I do realize that getting all of them to operate correctly in connection with their special characters could pose a knotty problem. So choosing the particular fonts that offer the most interoperability and consistency of interpretation might have to take precedence over the purity of aesthetic choices.

Thank you, Buster and Kellianne for making all of this possible! We love you more than we can adequately express.

So good to get back into daily writing with a prompt from 750 Words. I love that it’s a community and we can see that others are working when we are. There’s something motivating about that for me. I also love seeing the stats of what I’ve written—fascinating to see trends and moods! Happy to be a member again.

What an amazing way to start the year – to complete a monthly challenge.
I never would have thought that committing to writing daily would feel like such an achievement.
I highly recommend making the decision and just write. Every day.
It will help you find answers to your questions, clear your head of mental debris, give you an outlet to share your thoughts when you don’t want to share them with anyone else. It’s the ultimate in therapy.

Yearly Billing

I think it would be great if we had the option to be billed once a year or monthly. I think yearly installments are more convenient. Thank you!

This is a farewell of sorts.

The last time I’ll be using 750wordsv1. It’s been a fun ride…

Starting 2/1/22 I am switching over to 750words V2. Signed up for the Feb Challenge and everything.

Be well everyone, and hope to see you over there on the new place…coffee is good over there I hear.

Bill Wright-lives in District X

Just passed 365 days of writing and I can not express how grateful I am for this site. It has been an amazing year, and I can’t wait to get to the next milestone. Thank you all so much!!!

I like the stats feature because it gives me that feeling of someone else seeing my writing without actually having to share it with anyone else. :)

I learned about this site by watching Mel Robbins motivational talks. It turns out that she has utilized this site as an inspirational tool to practice her writing skills and vent. I have been flirting with the idea of writing for a while now but mostly as an outlet. I had to try it. My first night writing I only reached a mere 189 words, but it was the start I needed. My second night, 932 words! I unloaded! Now that I needed! For now I use it as a personal outlet, but I’m spawning ideas for stories and hopefully to write a book at some point. And upon that second night and 932 words later, I became a member. You only get better by writing…whatever. Just writing. My thanks to the creators of this site. I don’t know of anything else out there like it and at this point I would not bother to look. On that note, write on my friends…write on!

More text analysis

Would love to see how today’s text compares to my past text analysis (for example, am I growing increasingly more positive? am I mentioning a specific word more often? and so on)

Improve the writing page

Easier text formatting

Improve the writing page

Easier text formatting

There really is no replacement for this site!

I’ve been using 750words on and off for a long time. Sometimes I told myself I’d better just type it all on a word document instead… and end up quitting writing altogether until I come back here. There’s something to this site that always brings me back. You help me get things off my chest, get my ideas straight, and give me an excuse to transcribe my manuscript journal so my memories aren’t lost to time if I ever lose that little notebook.

Not to mention you’ve taught me how far a little work each day will get you. I went over 80k words some time ago – enough to fill a book – just by writing whatever came to my mind for half an hour each day!

Whether it’s the challenge to maintain the streak or that next shiny badge, you keep me writing. And that’s all that matters!

I blew it yesterday and didn’t copy and past in the project I worked on all afternoon, therefore I’ve lost my streak, again. Here are all my cups. I’ll start again today.

I am back here after a break of several years. And I trusted that if I kept showing up, then I would start to find useful things to write about lurking in my brain, not just moans. And after about two weeks of doing it consistently, as well as taking a walk every day, it’s starting to happen. Keep the faith!

I started writing here back in 2012 when I was a lonely undergraduate student interning in DC. I have written here sporadically over the years, but my most recent stint, beginning in the summer of this year, has been my most consistent and longest period of writing so far. I really appreciate how this site has given me a space to process emotions, reflect on my experiences, and puzzle through work issues. I write every morning now and it is my favorite time of day. Thank you!

I started using 750 words again after a multiple-year gap and I’ve found it incredibly helpful in the following ways: 1) fights the perfectionism with minimalist design, 2) prevents editing on past days so I can focus on the present, 3) metrics that I can track over time for comparing symptoms such as mood or anxiety and word analytics that helps me assess my state of being, common themes, thinking traps, and emotions (no other site or app offers this feature.) After years of silence, I am finally finding my voice. Thank you from the bottom of my cup <3

A better mobile site

Consolidated Data

The results of your writting are only available to see day by day, it would be great if we could have a summarize by a range of dates, or month to date, or weekly. I refer to the stats that show the words that most is used, the feelings while writing, etc….

Secure server for writing

It’s been 8 years, 5 states, 2 kids, and a cat since I discovered this incredible site + community. And although I haven’t been writing consistently that entire time, 750 words is always something I come back to when I need space to sort myself out. Thank you Kellianne and Buster for all you have done and continue to do. Cheers!

Improve the writing page

Sometimes I wish the writing page had a margin on BOTH sides: left and right.
I find WIDE sentences with LOTS of words difficult to read. Reading them is a chore, kind of like this:
Ifindwidesentenceswithlotsofwordsdifficulttoread.readingthemisachore,kindoflikethis:

One of the things I love about 750words is starting with a blank sheet. No judgement, no prior expectations, doesn’t matter how long it’s been since I last wrote, it’s there – ready and waiting and welcoming.

It’s given me a quiet space at the end of busy days to sit down and clear my thoughts, and get back in the habit of writing after falling out of it. I can write about what I’ve read, done, or start sketching out drafts of stories, and just knowing that that’s waiting for me before I go to bed means I’m much more settled for my next day. Thank you!