Quantify Your Self-Reflection with 750words.com
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Mar 14, 2011 - Written by Sasha Cagen | Filed under: Solitude
My sister tipped me off to a neat tool for self-reflection that you quirkyalones might enjoy. It’s called 750words.com and it’s a site that celeverly encourages you to post 750 words a day. Inspired by The Artist’s Way, the founder wanted to create a site to help people write three “morning pages.” There are 250 words per page, thus 750 as the magic number.
The site provides nifty statistics on your writing, allowing you to track words typed per minute, amount of time it takes to reach 750 words, and how much you use “I,” “we,” or “them” in your entries. There are also bar charts that supposedly reveal your mood at the time of writing, but these are pretty suspect.
I can’t help butI feel suspicious of an online diary site where I post my innermost thoughts. Isn’t this a gold mine beyond belief for researchers, marketers, or anyone who wants to use my own thoughts against me? Sometimes the Internet feels like one big “cross-your-fingers” exercise where you hope everything you disclose doesn’t come back to haunt you. That’s my caveat, your call on the cost-benefit analysis of this nifty service.
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Jane
Apr 11, 2011
Thank you for creating such a wonderful blog. I’ve made the choice to get off the dating hamster wheel and begin to really live my life. I’m feeling very good about that choice and as I see it, I’m far more likely to meet someone who would be a good fit in my life by creating the life I want anyway, and if that doesn’t happen…I’m okay with that too! Thanks again…Jane
Rubberband Girl
May 22, 2011
Hi Sasha,
It’s funny you posted about this, because I started writing at 750words.com last summer and am going on ten months now. It’s the first time ever in my life that I have written so consistently, and it’s provided amazing clarity and growth. I don’t do it every single day, but I average around 75% of the days every month. I recommend it to everyone!
RG