A year of 750words.com – with shiny graphs

384 days ago I wrote my first morning pages on 750words.com

Since then I have:

written 315,026 words (or about 7 novels)
spent 12 minutes on every day’s words
written an average of 820 words a day
mentioned sex 408 times
mentioned tea 503 times
used 1402 curse words

Writing the words every day is awesome. It’s like morning exercise but for your brain – very awesome for waking up and forcing the brain to get up to speed and ready to face the day.

And it’s very liberating too. Since you’re not writing for anybody, not even for yourself (I often mash out the whole thing with my eyes closed) you can say literally anything about anyone or anything. Sometimes things come out you didn’t even know you were thinking!

Awesomer still is the fact you now have a deep dataset about yourself. Your mood, your thoughts, going back … very far. Seeing your feelings in such plasticity is quite interesting.

Here’s a graph of my mood for the past 384 days.

How To Become Interesting (with Graphs) (scriblinmind.wordpress.com)
We’re Going To Need A Bigger Graph (writeofinitiation.wordpress.com)
In praise of 750 Words (householdopera.typepad.com)
Can A Graph Of A News Article’s Words Tell You More Than Reading It? (buzzfeed.com)

You should read my book, Why programmers work at night

http://smotko.si/ Smotko

Those graphs seem awesome and I see you have made a repo on github for making them? You should have mentioned this in the post
http://twitter.com/Swizec Swizec

I’ll write a post on making the graphs themselves for Monday.
configurator

Is this all you think about? Your fucking tea?
http://twitter.com/Swizec Swizec

Hey now that’s not nice. I apparently think about swear words a lot too!
Boštjan

It’s nice to see someone doing something simmilar… I’ve been writing my private diary more or less regularly for past 5 years, and there are some interesting statistics behind it. 750words average per entry (of 1515 entries, 1,100,000 words – Slovenian), 27 minutes and 48 seconds to write it. I also did a simple analysis and found out my crush’s name represented a full 0,1% of all words written last year lol
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Nice jobs, I translate this to Chinaese
Flotr2 – 我最喜欢的 Javascript 图形库
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