Doing It Wrong

[gb]

I've picked 750words up this month, after a long break. I'm enjoying maintaining the streak, but I don't feel any of the benefits from keeping up the habit or writing down words that the practice is recommended for.

I'm not getting the same feeling of inexplicable writer's block I posted about here a while ago; instead, it's more... irritation, that I'm writing down words with no meaning or purpose, simply so I can say 'I've maintained a streak for X days!', rather than feeling any of the benefits of writing itself. More and more often it feels like a waste of time, to be honest, especially when it takes me an hour of on-and-off writing to reach the goal and I wind up with a page of to-do lists and yelling in caps lock.

I suppose I should be thankful there is nothing bothering me so much that I have to rant about it at length any more, heh. I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. Does anyone else feel like this at times? Any suggestions?

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[gb]

I use 750 words as a brain dump. I brainstorm my writing ideas in it occasionally, but I have a bad habit of leaving these ideas all over the place (DW, Google Docs, 750words, Tumblr, Notepad, my dinky non-smart mobile phone, notebooks, pieces of paper...) so I'm paranoid about doing this in 750words and forgetting about it in an hour or so. (Has happened before!)

But I might be stymieing myself unnecessarily, when there's nothing stopping me from copy-pasting any useful writing I do in 750words into a central location.

I'm also starting university again this week, actually, so using 750 words as a way to process readings and work on assignments may be a good idea. I'll keep looking for different ways to use the site, as you suggested, and hopefully I can find a way that's useful to me.