*knocks* Anyone here?
I discovered 750words.com 8 days ago via ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
littlebutfierce at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
inkingitout, and it is my new favorite thing. I'm also very curious about how others are using the site -- especially long term, since I am only an egg a penguin.
I am using the site as modified morning pages, and try to write first thing in the morning. I'm not doing any serious writing there, and none of it counts toward my wordcount goal for the year. If I end up writing something "real," I expect I'll copy it out onto my computer.
I have the site email me, but I also have my calendar reminders set, and in those reminders I collect prompts. (I put in one reminder on infinite repeat, and then I edit each occurrence with a prompt.) I've got prompts for about a week ahead: they're writing exercises from Klauser's Writing on Both Sides of the Brain, freewriting prompts from a creativity coach I really love, and prompts to write about what I am doing in stories I'm writing. If I would like to do something else, I just move the prompts -- I've done that a couple times so I could instead witter on about work problems, and I've moved exercises around so I didn't do a depressing or disturbing one (like "Interview Your Inner Critic") before work.
I tend to write just a bit more than 750 words each day, and I average about 20 minutes. I don't do any true stream-of-consciousness type stuff (the way Cameron originally described morning pages), because I find those horribly blocking. And if I'm going to give myself prompts anyway, I might as well make it explicit, and add interesting new ones as I think of them or read books on writing.
littlebutfierce at inkingitout, and it is my new favorite thing. I'm also very curious about how others are using the site -- especially long term, since I am only I am using the site as modified morning pages, and try to write first thing in the morning. I'm not doing any serious writing there, and none of it counts toward my wordcount goal for the year. If I end up writing something "real," I expect I'll copy it out onto my computer.
I have the site email me, but I also have my calendar reminders set, and in those reminders I collect prompts. (I put in one reminder on infinite repeat, and then I edit each occurrence with a prompt.) I've got prompts for about a week ahead: they're writing exercises from Klauser's Writing on Both Sides of the Brain, freewriting prompts from a creativity coach I really love, and prompts to write about what I am doing in stories I'm writing. If I would like to do something else, I just move the prompts -- I've done that a couple times so I could instead witter on about work problems, and I've moved exercises around so I didn't do a depressing or disturbing one (like "Interview Your Inner Critic") before work.
I tend to write just a bit more than 750 words each day, and I average about 20 minutes. I don't do any true stream-of-consciousness type stuff (the way Cameron originally described morning pages), because I find those horribly blocking. And if I'm going to give myself prompts anyway, I might as well make it explicit, and add interesting new ones as I think of them or read books on writing.