750 words

I want to write, I need to write. I have no choice in the matter, I never had. If I don’t write I might go crazy … but at the same time I am struggling to write, If I don’t write it feels as if my head is overflowing with information and thoughts and I need to process them. I have so many ideas that I need to file them away, store them somewhere until I have time to think about them or use them.

That is the reason why I called my website ‘Internal Dialogue’, there is a constantly continuing going on in my mind and it is hard for me to stop it at any time but it can be tremendously hard when I am struggling with something. And that is one of the reasons why I am writing fanfiction. It helps me to deal with things in my personal life without actually telling people around me what’s been bothering me, Besides that I always liked to come up with stories. I recently found a scrapbook from when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old and even back then I was making up stories.

I have actually always a writing pad lying next to my bed in case I come up with something in the middle of the night so that I can write it down because over the years I have learned one thing and that is that if I have an idea and it strikes in the death of night that I am better off writing it down because then I might actually get some sleep instead of not writing it down and not sleeping either.

I am a creative person and story telling apparently is one of the ways in which I express myself. So earlier this month I by accident stumbled across this website which is named 750words.com. It is a website in which you are challenged to write 750 words each day. It doesn’t matter what you write about as long as you are writing, You can lock up your writing so no one can read them, so you could potentially use them for journaling. For each day you wrote you 750 words you get points, depending on how fast you wrote and how many distractions you had along the way you get a certain number of points added to your account. Distractions only count if they are longer then three minutes.

If you write a certain number of days in a row you receive this little cute icon as a present on your account, And crazy enough those small little icons are really encouraging. And you get a full page filled with stats. I have never seen a page quite like it but it completely analyzes you writing and picks different kinds of information and somehow creates all of these little stats to show you certain things. It compares the nature of your writing to that of the world and also checks the mood of your written piece and stuff like that. I have no idea how it works but I guess that I just like to watch what kind of stuff gets figured out once I am done with the piece of that day. It shows you a stat which tells you how much you wrote, and how fast you were. It compares that to the general pace of a writer and you can see if you are on target or way behind. I really like that part of the website, I guess that it really gives you a reason to get good results.

Here is a link to that stats page, it is the particular page which was created when I wrote this post.

This was actually the first post I wrote about a random topic, my other posts have been fanfiction. I have actually written the next four chapters of my fic ‘Some secrets are worth sharing’ on 750words. They are now at my beta and as soon as I get them back, which is hopefully very soon I will start to post them because I don’t want to keep you all waiting for too long. I am having way too much fun with this story and I am anxiously waiting to see what you all think about it.

So keep an eye open, here on my livejournal, my fanfiction.net account or my twitter.

Anyway for all of you people out there who want to write but need a little push in the back I can really recommend this website. So sign up and join meanwhile I finish this month and then next month we can start the challenge together. I am looking forward to it.