750 Words Status

1) How did you learn about 750words.com?

I learnt about 750Words from the Lifehacker.com weblog.

2) What are your interests outside of insanely long streaks of private journaling?  Who are you and how do you define yourself?

I am a combination of many things in life, none of which perfected. I am biology major at UBC and a martial arts instructor. I am photography enthusiast and a detail oriented individual. I like to think that I give my thoughts a certain amount of time to fester, and take shape but not so much that everything becomes strategic, and fake. I enjoy the spontaneity of skydiving just as I enjoy planning on a vacation well ahead of time. I love wine, and spirits. I love all food. I could not live without my music on a daily basis, nor without my books. My thoughts tend to be rather scattered outside of 750Words, which is one of the main reasons I am using it in the first place.

3) What do you write about in your super secret private journal?

At some point, I ran out of things to write about that included me and my life. So then, I started to pursue all the subject that I procrastinated about researching and understanding further. I then divided my journal into sections » wings » subjects and wrote about them as time went on where I read, and listened to more ideas on those subjects. So far they have included morality and its origins, religious morality, religion, death, religious philosophy (or lack there of), laws (U.S. supreme court decisions), nutrition: including meats, factory farming, and vegetarianism, disasters such as earth quakes, and lately the BP oil spill, many current events, politics, etc.

4) What kept you coming back to the site, 100 days in a row?

Well, the badges helped for sure! Even though they are inconsequential, the competitive behaviour within all of us really comes out even when anonymity is practised with whatever it is we’re doing. The fact that today, June 27, I have passed 100,000 words is quite a milestone for me. I have never written that much, in such a small amount of time. It is helping my vocabulary, speech, writing skills, and most of all it is helping me finish thoughts. It is quite difficult for me to start a thought, follow it logically all the way to the end, and end it with some kind of conclusion. This site helps me achieve this by pointing out my errors only a couple of sentences previous.

5) Do you find it difficult to stay motivated after 100 days?

No. There are an endless amount of things to understand before I leave Earth.

6) If you could change anything about the site, what would it be?

I) Export previous entries in a better way: the text file is not formatted in any manner or form. I’d be willing to pay for this. Why? At the end of the year, I plan on printing it all, into a book…
II) Allow the user to see who is following them.
III) Allow for the editing for previous entries, maybe up to 50 extra words? There are some entries I’d like to spell check, and some at the beginning where I indented that messes with the formating.

7) Anything else you’d like to add as one of the first people to reach 100 days in a row?

It is possible, with school, with multiple jobs and even more responsibilities. Anyone can do this, if they really want to. But the question is, why wouldn’t someone want to better reflect on life, and everything in it, if it helps make the future just a little brighter?