750 Words

I am a writer.

Ergo, I write.

(So far, so logical. I'm doing well!)


And I want to write every day.

What's hard is getting the motivation and the self-control to do that, all the time, no matter what, whether you feel like it and have ideas or not. That bit is really hard. NaNoWriMo helps. Script Frenzy helps.

Now, I've found another website that helps. It's called 750 Words, and the idea is to write 750 words every day. There's a dreadfully complicated point system, and you can get badges with birds on them!

It turns out I am a penguin with a blue beak and a snazzy bowtie. 

This all serves to motivate me very much. It helps me to write every day. It's fun.

I use it mostly for journalling, writing down whatever inane thing goes through my head, though sometimes I write out plans for any of the stories I'm working on, or how exactly those epic werewolves work. The site is very motivating and very fun.

Another thing it does is analyse your writing, and I'm not quite so sure about that. It tells you what emotion you're feeling - apparently I'm a very affectionate person, which I'm not - and what you're concerned about - Death, apparently, which I don't think I am. That's funny, though, and fun to look at.

It also rates your writing. For several days in a row I was rated PG-13 for either violence or sexual content or both, which was odd because I didn't talk about either one. Then I looked through it and realised that whenever you use the word "love" it counts that as sexual content, even if you're talking about Neil Gaiman books or pie or your family.

All in all, this is a really cool website, and I highly recommend checking it out.

And I'm off to write today's words.