750 words

A friend of mine posted this website on Facebook - 750words.com. From the first look it looks like yet another blogging/journaling site. But with another look I realized it isn't.

"....The Artist's Way called it morning pages. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in "long hand", typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. It's about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day."

If you are thinking of doing this, don't think you need to be an artist. Basically it is just writing to write. Writing to empty out what is going on inside.

A very cool feature of the site is that it tracks things for the entry....

This was how my Monday writing stats looked....
Words today: 796
Time to 750: 00:15
Total time: 00:16
Words per minute:51
# distractions: 0 Good job!

Rating:PG Sexual content (nothing to do with sex in my entry but I will get into how it tracks below)

Feeling mostly…Affectionate but also Upset, Sad, Self-Expressive, Anxious

Concerned mostly about…Family but also Religion (again it is wrong on this but I understand why it put this), Death, Eating/drinking, Success, Leisure, Home, Relationships, Work

Mindset while writing… Extrovert (it was almost 50/50 on extrovert/introvert), Negative, Certain, Thinking

Time orientation: The Future
Primary sense: Hearing
Us and them: Them

And then it also does a word cloud of frequently used words.

It tracks words so such if I say kiss in the entry they would put that as sexual content. Said I was concerned about religion but I wasn't but was mentioning Christianity in my entry just as description though not as an issue. So it tracks words and then puts them into stats. Even if not totally accurate - I really like the stats.

I just like the concept of emptying out my brain too. It has felt good.