The Writer's Workshop is a positive community to promote each other's work and learn the craft of writing and publishing
750 Words
750 Words - Write every day.
Every month you get a clean slate. If you write anything at all, you get 1 point. If you write 750 words or more, you get 2 points. If you write two, three or more days in a row, you get even more points.
Does anyone else use this? It's an online model of the morning pages. I will use my daily 750+ to break writers' blocks. I'm not exactly sure what it is that gets me to start a good flow better than just a word processor, maybe it's the counter at the bottom or the pressure of maintaining my streak (53 days!), but it's been a lifesaver for my WIP.
I've been a member forever so even though I paid for a membership I have a free lifetime account. 30-day trial and then $5 monthly after that, but includes feedback, feature requests, scheduling time off for your streak (if that matters to you), etc. Definitely worth trying if you haven't! If I'm not in the mood to write, I just use it as a brain dump or journaling.




I used to use 750Words a lot a couple years ago. I got the early adopter lifetime account as well. Mostly I just fell out of the habit of using it, though I've lurked back a couple of times in recent years. Sometimes I think I should go back, but I'm pretty attached to Written? Kitten! right now.
I'm not clear exactly what it does that a word processor or notepad on your computer except for pretty graphs of how you write after?
It makes a pleasing sound when you hit your world goal! It's the simple things in life, etc.
And I like the badges.
Yeah what @Muccamukk said. I owe a word processor nothing. But the 750words text field - I owe that thing something every 24 hours. Not to say I haven't done most of my writing just using GDocs or OpenOffice, but 750 has definitely increased my update rate and overall productivity.
I do! I also got the lifetime free early adopter version.
Did not know of this! I've done the longhand morning pages off and on, and kept morning journals that simply recorded what was going on in my inner/outer life. This may work now that so many of us live in our computers and are comfortable typing. When Artists' Way was written 20? years ago, the relationship with computers was much more formal.
It's a lot of fun and makes you want to write more! Plus it goes quickly. If I'm just free-writing I can dump out my 750 words in 8-10 minutes.
I used to, but then I got all the buttons, and it sort of lost it's appeal. I like the blank wall with no distractions and custom text, and still use it for NaNo.
you got all the badges?! Like even the 1,000-day one? My badge collection is kind of weird, most of mine are from when I joined and then I've had like 2 from this year, with nothing in between.
Oh, Nano...I always want to but then other projects end up taking my time.
Ha, no sorry. I got all the badges I'm realistically going to get, given how hectic my life is. Serious kudos to whoever gets the long haul ones. There's no way I'd have three uninterrupted months where my Internet access worked every day. (I know you can put holds on it for planned breaks, but my stuff never seems to be planned).
Oh, same. I never had more than 30 days or so because streaks weren't that important to me, but this one I'm on now just happened to ... well, happen and so I'm like heck yeah!
I think I haven't gotten the actual NaNo one, for 50k in 30 days, come to think of it. My NaNo attempts tend to be more aspirational than realistic. I find I'm a better social writer. I like written? kitten! because then you can have word wars and see who gets the most pictures of kittens, etc.
Yay! Streak! I need to be on a streak right now, if I'm going to make my 30 Day Goal this month. Maybe I SHOULD go back to 750 words.
someone else mentioned written kitten and I'm definitely going to check it out!
The other one I like is Write or Die 2.0, which I bought as a desktop program. It has various reward and punishment settings. So if I really need to get something on paper, I can tell it to start deleting words every time I stop typing, and if I'm more casual, it can be basically written kitten with picture of kitten/puppy/whatever every X# of words. And you can use it for word wars, though there isn't really anyone around for that until NaNo goes.
Yes, I used it daily for months a while back, and I have the free lifetime account. Now I'm not really able to write every day, so I lost interest in it. (especially because the lifetime membership doesn't actually include the break time.) But I think it's great for folks that actually have the time to write daily!
I ...used to? I don't know why I quit, really, but I should get back to it. Thanks for the reminder!
Never used it, but I avoid subscriptions on principle. Plus, motivation has never been my problem, and writing every day is actively bad for me. (Health problems.) If it works for you though, awesome!
I was a little bummed too when they went to a subscription model but they put a lot of work into it and it pays off. I don't blame you for avoiding subscriptions...they add up really fast looks at checking out the first 10 days of the month
They really do! I much prefer one-time payments myself.
I bought a year of Grammarly and I like it, but I'm mostly glad I got such a good deal on it, because although I like it, I don't ever want to pay full price. It messes up too much for it to be worth $140/year.
Oh jeez, $140 a year! Yeah, if it's not selling my work for me, no way in hell!
It's really helpful for catching minor stuff. It gives you a score out of 100 as you work on things and it breaks down everything, even judges by style. But it makes really stupid mistakes sometimes like doesn't understand a plural noun and reads it as a verb, or always tells me to put a comma after an em dash, things like that. Little head-scratchers. I think I paid $75 and that's fair, but I wouldn't want to pay much more.