That is like one Lord of The Rings or six 1984 every two years. A month and change for Animal Farm. Two months for "man bash".

It sounds like a full time job.

It really did not take that long each day maybe 30minutes max.

The problem stemmed from dearth of possible topics.

Thus my writing degenerated into some sort of free association chains reminiscent of most blogs.

Get those 750 words done and you can get on with your day!

Maybe an Edgar Wallace inspired topic generator would have been handy.

I have a similar website for french people: www.3pages.fr

It seems like some people do get into dark places when they break their chains. I've considered several times having a limit that would prevent you from writing 30 days in a row or something.

Ideas: Allow users to specify which days of the week are writing days and only track that streak. For every certain period of time (14 days?) completed, the user gets a vacation / skip day. This way the user can keep the streak going without having to write every day and can take days off when needed without losing their streak.

I strongly agree. Made my "dream text editor", launched with a focus on gamification tools designed around making people write more. Although people liked it (3rd product of the day on Product Hunt, a bunch of sign-ups), in time it became evident that gamification tools create more problems than they solve. We removed/sent to background most of them since, besides a writing calendar and general statistics. I'm more happy to use it now and have a small - about 2% of registered users - awesome community.