Penned Thoughts

Now this seems like a fun, helpful exercise. I’ve been struggling with a writer’s block over the past couple of months—though to be quite honest, it’s more of a laziness block than anything else—and hopefully this will help me get over it.

That’s the first paragraph of my first entry on 750 Words, a website that encourages you to jot down about three pages of text onto it every day. As the tagline goes, it is “private, unfiltered, spontaneous, daily”. What’s the purpose of it? Just to help you clear your mind and get it all out before you start the day. I’ll let the site’s creator explain it himself because he does a much better job of it.

There are other features and you can use markdown to format your text or tags to keep track of various activities and moods over a period of time, but the primary purpose is to get you to write. And write only for yourself. You don’t even have to read what you wrote; just keep writing. There’s also a monthly challenge users can partake in and I hope to do it in the month of April, if I make it till then.

I have this tendency to be really impressed by something and promise to myself that I will do it religiously and then give it up after a few days. If I start seeing some real benefit from this exercise, I’ll ensure that it doesn’t go out of fashion for me in the same manner. I urge you to give it a try as well.

[Thanks to Kapil Bhatia for pointing me to the site.]

-Aayush