The Friends & Members of 750 Words

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I have been on 750 Words since May 2011, and TODAY I finally hit 3 million words! I love this place for brainstorming, clearing my head, planning things, detailing my day—all kinds of reasons. There have been times when I haven’t felt like writing, but get on here and voila, I find things to write! Now that my streak is over 1000 days (after years of off-again on-again writing), writing on 750 Words is a well-ingrained habit. It’s nice to just get on and let my fingers go, typing whatever I feel like typing. So thank you, 750 Words, for the motivation to do my writing. Also, I love the badges—that tiny extra bit of motivation of working toward a badge is sometimes all I need.

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I’d forgotten all about the site (I signed up a few years ago) & recently started psychotherapy. Somehow it just feels like the right time to back, & I’m thankful the site is still here. I love the analysis on the writing, & it’s way cheaper than therapy.

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Three days in and the jumbled, voluminous thoughts that always start my day are dumped! A clean slate to start the day. Creative ideas have appeared along with random “I want to”s and other sparks. I’m inspired to do this every day because it allows me to enjoy the wanderings of an early morning mind.

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I am now on attempt #3 to hit 100-day streak. I was so excited to have my streak restored after the outage…but then I just plumb forgot to write a few days later. Sigh.
I don’t always feel like writing, but I’ve only missed 2 or 3 days since February, and that’s pretty dang good! Thanks for this space. I appreciate it so much.

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Dear 750words idea authors, implementors, site owners and all writers family!
Thank you so much for the possibility to be active, systematic, creative and well-minded all the time with you!
This time my streak was 222 days and now I will continue my practice on my own page, in Latvian.
Thank you once more and keep doing it! You are great!
Dr.Igors

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I have trouble getting started. When I know the topic that I’m going to write, it is easier to start typing the 750 words.

Is it possible to enable adding a note for the next 7 days or 10 days so I can quickly add thoughts that I need to write about?

Currently, there is no way to enter a note or type content for future days. I understand this could be part of the design to focus on today.

But it will help people like me to allow a note or 30 words for future days.

Let me know your thoughts.

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I don’t always know the way forward in life. I don’t always know if I’m making any kind of progress at all. At times like these, it helps to get back to basics. Write. Every day. Literally anything. This site has been helping me do that for a long, long time now.

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The way three cups of coffee (if I drank coffee) might have kept a day going, so does 750words keep my brain connected to my pen (if I wrote with a pen). I am lighter than I was before and more frail (if I were frail) but nonetheless writing is as good for the soul as it ever was.Thanks for building and maintaining this corner of the webby world.

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Dear family and other good people here,

Please fix the encoding bug. I’m desperate: more than seven days already all my Cyrillic text turns into ???? once it’s saved and the page is refreshed.

Afterwards, I hope you can help restoring the content. The streak is fine, but the content is “?” everywhere.

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GIven how much has changed on the AI front, I wonder about GPT-3 and other language processing models having an impact on the sort of therapeutic work we have all been able to do here, Buster. Lots that could be teased out on this and it could dilute and otherwise perfect site, but just brainstorming a bit this morning and tossing 3 cups your way.

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I’m here on one of the beautiful Turks and Caicos Islands looking out over a gorgeous sea. This is the kind of place where people come to clear their hearts and minds and to find peace. This morning the island is having it’s way with me and I am grounded and comfortable. But amazingly, this site is a peaceful getaway for me everyday — even when I’m not slathered with mineral based, reef friendly sun screen. Because of 750 words, I wake up wherever I am and find my way to clarity by opening my computer in my own home, a Holiday Inn, or this little bit of paradise. It’s a powerful reminder that peace is within me — independent of my environment. Thank you for providing me with such a friendly and supportive platform for relflection.

PS: But this is still pretty nice. xoxo

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Thank you so much to Buster and Kelli Anne for fixing all those streaks when the site was down! I was nearing my thousand day streak (for the second time, after messing up not long after achieving the first), and I was so concerned when I couldn’t log in to write that night.

I depend on this site every day to dump all the stuff in my brain so I can go to bed with a clear head, and not dwell on the day. Someday I will want to look back over all I wrote during the pandemic, but I am not ready to look at that yet, just as hope has returned and vaccines have made a difference. But thanks to this site, I know it will be there when I am ready. Thanks so much!!!

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I would love otbe able to give a title to each day’s writing—say, one or two words. Then, I could log in and hover the mouse over any of the days of the month and the title that I gave it would appear. Or is this what tags are for? Except I want unique titles, not reused tags.

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Just to say THANK YOU for restoring my streak after the outage.

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This is a big thank you to Buster and Kellianne for dealing with the server error last evening (6/7/21) from both a technology and an “oh god I can’t write my daily words what’ll happen to my Monthly Challenge/Pegagus/Double Flock” goals.

You guys are just the best. One of the big reasons I came back after four years of pretty much hit-or-miss participation.

A deep sigh of relief and a huge thank you.;…

Bill, high above District X where the NON-X-Men mutants hang out…

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I am an amateur writer, and one day I hope to become a published amateur writer. 750words has given me that boost I needed to gain the habit to write every day. I have many projects close to finish now thanks to this site.

Thank you 750 team!

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When looking back at entries, I would like to see the box of the date that stands for the date of the words currently displayed. I mean, there are 28/30/31 green boxes at the top. I click on one the third box to show words I wrote on the 3rd. I’d like the 3rd box to be shown in a different color. Just so when I want to go to the next or previous day, I know which box I’m currently at and which box I have to click. Less trial and error. I suck at counting boxes. Know what I mean?

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With today’s outage, I remembered again just how much I value this site, and what it does for me. I have written 3.9 million words here, and going strong. It has kept me alive, through five long years of the darkest days of my adult life. If I died of this depression, what would happen to my streak? Thank you for gently urging me on, without coercion, just by being there, by inviting instead of compelling. I literally couldn’t have done it without you.

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I’d love to see more badges that reward or challenge you to do something specific in a given week or 10-day streak, like using a specific set of words in your entry each day or writing a letter to someone every day for that period of time. Something that’s motivating between the longer stretches of streak-achievement badges.

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I love these! The first that come to mind are breaking up some of the longer increments of streaks — say, between 500 (how can there not be a badge for 750 days, amirite?), and some between 1000 and 2000, for example. First, though, should be a badge for those people who have managed the incredible 3000 days. They deserve it!

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Today marks my 7th anniversary with 750Words! It’s hard to believe, though from seeing the streaks of others, I know there are many here who have been here even longer than I. It seems impossible, and I still have almost another year to go before I can manage to achieve Gryphon status.

750Words has served several different purposes for me. It’s the best place I’ve yet found to experiment with rough drafts, a great way to write down an informal diary if that’s all that’s occurring to me for that day, and (once in a while) a sanity-saving way to vent and get things off my mind. Most of all, it keeps me writing something, no matter what, and in the end, that makes the biggest difference of all.

Thanks so much, Buster and Kellianne!

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My suggestion is that after so many cups are achieved (say 20), the user gets a free month of 750Words. Alternately, this could be a free month after a certain badge is achieved, maybe the 100 Day badge.

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Words don’t come to me very easy so I thought trying creative writing might help.

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I am an egg again! After 174 days, the holiday weekend changed my routine and I completely forget about writing yesterday. The streak (POOF!) is gone. An opportunity—is this a longevity exercise or a valuable thought project? It is both, really…the daily writing and the 750 word limit generates the insight. Certainly, every day is not a gem, but within those pages are diamonds, generated by this daily exercise. I start again, today was day 1 and I’ll pass my former streak on Nov 22. Onward!

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Very positive feelings about this possibility to write freely. I feel good even when I think about this site.

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I discovered 750 words, thanks to the recommendation of a good friend, in January of 2020. Little did I know the year that was ahead for all of us. I think it ended up being a place where I poured my daily concerns and the anxieties of being caught up in a global pandemic. It was (and is) the daily ritual that got me through it. I’m not ready to go back and read through all that I wrote, and frankly, most of it is a lot of mundane drivel. But, it’s mine and clearly writing it helped me get through it all. After 365 days, I took a well-deserved break and then I restarted again on my birthday in March, intending this time to carry on. After all, I’ve kept up a daily photo photo project since May 2008, so surely I can do this too. Thank you for this space in which to do it. And for being that spot of discipline in my life. And please make more badges, I find them very motivating.

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I wanted to use half my cups of patronage to recognise my first year of writing with this site. When I began during the the end of the first lockdown here in France little did I know how incredibly useful simply writng each day would be. I’ve vented, been pleased and proud, planned my exercise classes, written recipes but above all had a disciplined routine when all has felt as if it’s been falling apart around me. My heartfelt thanks and here’s to the Space Bird, my next goal.

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I found 750 Words through a writing workshop friend back in 2018. I wrote here and there, but the press of caring for my mother at the end of her life made it very hard for me to commit to daily writing. She passed away in February 2020 just before the first wave of COVID hit the US. It wasn’t until summer or fall that I even remembered I had a 750 Words account. In January 2021, I started writing every day. I hit my 100-day mark yesterday, and I am so grateful for the personal motivation this website has given me. It was really hard to start working out again, and there were some terrible days when I didn’t want to write or do anything at all. I pressed through, though, and I now am looking forward to reaching 200 days and 200,000 words. My mother was a writer and artist, and she always liked to remind me that ALL writing is good because it is practice. Thank you, 750 Words and Patricia W. who led me here.

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I love this site. I have been on and off for years. It’s so refreshing to be away from the mainstream, corporate-run internet and to just be able to pour out my heart and thoughts on something that is run by ordinary people! Keep up the good work!!