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Unrelated question: what technologies is it built with ? I'm just curious to know !
So I would hear quiet words of top elf herders when I made mistakes. I won't link to it, since I wanted to include some words that have become as copyright to claim.
(That is, in common style of old singular sense of farmers almanacs, people would write in their own book of learnings (spelling susp.). This home notebook (paper) would then record of personally significant captures of word passages learned, this then being the definition of a Common Source book with also lookup to cite reference. However people such as Emerson (many "mistooks") or Ursula K LeGuin, Lathe of Heaven (the "mistook" being a grant of charter to her wisdom), or as in common error of translation of Sufi mysticism to secular preachings of Universalist atheists, you know the one it's in the Nonviolent Communication Training Course). Be well.
Wow ! I absolutely love the concept and the website is straightforward to use, no fuss or unnecessary feature, just write and save. Brilliant. It's funny because I'm struggling with my writing skills and I wanted a way to practice, this is the perfect solution for me. Hope you continue working on it. Unrelated question: what technologies is it built with ? I'm just curious to know !
I'm using Symfony 4 (PHP) and some basic JQuery. Nothing fancy but it allows me to ship faster as I'm starting to know it well. Here is an article I wrote detailing my stack: https://medium.com/@basilesamel/how-i-am-building-my-minimum...
This is very similar to NaNoWriMo[1], which originally stood for "National Novel Writing Month" (I say "originally" because the "National" bit no longer applies), whereby you sign up to try to write 50,000 words of a novel in November. It has similar word tracking features and a community of other users whom you can interact with (IIRC; the last time I signed up was 2012). The only real difference is that the words/d…
This is intriguing. It reminds me of 750words.com as well. I think what I really want to show with the 200 words objective is that it is reachable by anyone. 1600 words per day is way too much for a regular worker who just started writing.
I write a lot for work that's interspersed with a fair number of other activities as well. However, even on days when I'm more or less full-time writing with maybe a bit of add-on research and color for a topic I'm already familiar with, 1600 words is a lot. And I say that as someone who has written books. Personally, I'm more in the 800 words or so per full "production" day average. I can probably hit 1600 but that's assuming I already know what I'm writing about and even have some existing material I can adapt and fold in--and I've really cleared the decks.
200 words/day should be pretty achievable for many although that's not enough for a typical post and you may find breaking things up like that (rather than, say, spending one day per week writing 1000 words) isn't very efficient. It partially depends how much control you have over carving up your time and whether you need to really get in the flow of writing vs. banging off a few paragraphs here and there.
The hardest part is organization. it means that the stuff written on day 40 has to some how be connected with or relevant to the stuff on day 7.
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This is intriguing. It reminds me of 750words.com as well. I think what I really want to show with the 200 words objective is that it is reachable by anyone. 1600 words per day is way too much for a regular worker who just started writing.
>1600 words per day is way too much for a regular worker who just started writing. I write a lot for work that's interspersed with a fair number of other activities as well. However, even on days when I'm more or less full-time writing with maybe a bit of add-on research and color for a topic I'm already familiar with, 1600 words is a lot . And I say that as someone who has written books. Personally, I'm more in the…
Anywasy, thanks for sharing your experience! I appreciate it.
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>1600 words per day is way too much for a regular worker who just started writing. I write a lot for work that's interspersed with a fair number of other activities as well. However, even on days when I'm more or less full-time writing with maybe a bit of add-on research and color for a topic I'm already familiar with, 1600 words is a lot . And I say that as someone who has written books. Personally, I'm more in the…
200 is still so hard for many people. I talked to users who tried the website and couldn't do more than a 1-day streak, they all say the same: I can't get into the habit / too much work / didn't plan it blablabla And I think this is the case for 80% people on earth. And I'm talking about english native speakers, non-native are even less likely to reach 200 words per day. Anywasy, thanks for sharing your experience! I…
Personally, I'm also guilty with a number of things of the mindset that it's not worth chipping away at, it's too much to contemplate, etc. Writing can definitely be similar.
I have built an app that helps people to write every day and track their progress: https://writingstreak.io/ I think you might find it useful (it's still in active development, I'm currently working on completing v1). I really hope your project takes off, there's never enough writing tools and communities!
It's like proposing at someone's wedding: yes, it's a relevant time to do it, but it's specifically someone else's special day, not yours.
I also created a simple writing tool https://just50words.com to help me focus and write.