750 Words

One thing that struck me as weird was-- after the spiel about the site being private (between 'you and you'), it asks you to sign in via facebook.

One of my daily habits for the last few years has been writing morning pages, though my goal is 500 words, and I typically write 550 - 600. I use the excellent WriteRoom, which helps block distractions and also provides a handy word count in the bottom left corner. I now have hundreds of text files documenting my inner monologue over the last few years...I expect it'll come in handy if I ever decide to write my memoirs :)

So what do they mean when they say "it's online?" It's obviously a web application, but <i>why</i> is it one (other than that being the paradigm the author is most acquainted with)? What's the advantage of using this over, say, a desktop tool like WriteRoom/OmmWriter plus a scoring script?

the guy that made it:<p><a href="http://busterbenson.com/" rel="nofollow">http://busterbenson.com/</a><p>Bottom of the page, 'rules to live by', good stuff!

Perhaps posting the source code and allowing people to host it on their own terms would be a bit more realistic. If someone is to write as 750words intends, spilling their deepest thoughts; I don't think they want to attribute their facebook account to it, let alone entrust someone they know nothing about with that very data. It would be interesting to know if they changed the authentication procedure + made it anonymous, how much the conversions would change.

Journler -- <a href="http://journler.com/" rel="nofollow">http://journler.com/</a> is a good desktop app for Mac users. It shows the number of paragraphs words in the status bar. It also has a load of other features without getting in the way of writing.<p>Thanks for bringing the idea of writing morning pages into our attention.

I really liked this. I've written a shell script that does something similar, but there isn't any chart generation or word tagging, for example. This is nice and polished. I'm always overjoyed when someone works on something I want. :)

"typically encouraged to be in 'long hand' ... "<p>Probably because your brain works differently when you write that when than when you type, a difference that matters.

Looks cool but I wish you could publish your writing.