We launched Write.as on this day way back in 2015 — _eleven years_ ago! To celebrate, for the next two weeks ending February 16, we're having a sale on our long-term 5-year Pro plan and iOS app. Read more about how we got here on our blog — and for more on this discount, read on. ## 5-year Pro Plan From the very start, we built Write.as with an eye toward the next decade-plus. As writers ourselves, we wanted everyone to feel comfortable knowing the words they published here would still be there tomorrow. So in 2020, we launched our 5-year plan, a steeply discounted plan that both helps sustain our small business and gives you peace of mind knowing you’ll have a place on the web for years to come. As has become tradition at this point, we're again offering our long-term 5-year Pro plan at an even higher discount. With this, you can get everything Write.as has to offer on our Pro plan for just $180, paid once every 5 years (25% off our normal price). This is also available to current and past 5-year subscribers who want to renew their long-lasting subscription. Besides our normal Pro features, our 5-year plan comes with up to _10 blogs_ (instead of the usual 3), plus extra Write.as invites for friends and family, and bonuses like a chance to join office hours with our founder, Matt. Grab this discount before Monday, February 16th at 11:59pm Eastern, when our sale ends — see our **five-year subscription** page to subscribe, restart, or switch from another Pro plan. ## WriteFreely for iOS During this sale, you can also get **33% off** our WriteFreely iOS app! It's just $7.99, paid once, to install on your Apple devices today and get all future updates. This app works with the open source platform behind Write.as, called WriteFreely. That means you can use it to publish to _any_ WriteFreely community, including your Write.as account! Purchase the app on the **App Store** during the sale to grab this special discount. It's been incredible growing, evolving, and creating a writing space for everyone over the last decade. We can't thank you enough for pouring out your words, and choosing to do that here on Write.as. We're excited to keep growing alongside you, and to see what we all write over the _next_ decade! 🎉 #WriteAs #WriteFreely #sale #discount #Deals * * * _Want to be in the loop next time we run a promotion? Add your email address below to subscribe to our updates. As always, we'll never ever use it for any other purpose._

We launched Write.as on this day way back in 2015 — _eleven years_ ago! To celebrate, for the next two weeks ending February 16, we're having a sale on our long-term 5-year Pro plan and iOS app. Read more about how we got here on our blog — and for more on this discount, read on. ## 5-year Pro Plan From the very start, we built Write.as with an eye toward the next decade-plus. As writers ourselves, we wanted everyone to feel comfortable knowing the words they published here would still be there tomorrow. So in 2020, we launched our 5-year plan, a steeply discounted plan that both helps sustain our small business and gives you peace of mind knowing you’ll have a place on the web for years to come. As has become tradition at this point, we're again offering our long-term 5-year Pro plan at an even higher discount. With this, you can get everything Write.as has to offer on our Pro plan for just $180, paid once every 5 years (25% off our normal price). This is also available to current and past 5-year subscribers who want to renew their long-lasting subscription. Besides our normal Pro features, our 5-year plan comes with up to _10 blogs_ (instead of the usual 3), plus extra Write.as invites for friends and family, and bonuses like a chance to join office hours with our founder, Matt. Grab this discount before Monday, February 16th at 11:59pm Eastern, when our sale ends — see our **five-year subscription** page to subscribe, restart, or switch from another Pro plan. ## WriteFreely for iOS During this sale, you can also get **33% off** our WriteFreely iOS app! It's just $7.99, paid once, to install on your Apple devices today and get all future updates. This app works with the open source platform behind Write.as, called WriteFreely. That means you can use it to publish to _any_ WriteFreely community, including your Write.as account! Purchase the app on the **App Store** during the sale to grab this special discount. It's been incredible growing, evolving, and creating a writing space for everyone over the last decade. We can't thank you enough for pouring out your words, and choosing to do that here on Write.as. We're excited to keep growing alongside you, and to see what we all write over the _next_ decade! 🎉 #WriteAs #WriteFreely #sale #discount #Deals * * * _Want to be in the loop next time we run a promotion? Add your email address below to subscribe to our updates. As always, we'll never ever use it for any other purpose._

We launched Write.as on this day way back in 2015 — _eleven years_ ago! To celebrate, for the next two weeks ending February 16, we're having a sale on our long-term 5-year Pro plan and iOS app. Read more about how we got here on our blog — and for more on this discount, read on. ## 5-year Pro Plan From the very start, we built Write.as with an eye toward the next decade-plus. As writers ourselves, we wanted everyone to feel comfortable knowing the words they published here would still be there tomorrow. So in 2020, we launched our 5-year plan, a steeply discounted plan that both helps sustain our small business and gives you peace of mind knowing you’ll have a place on the web for years to come. As has become tradition at this point, we're again offering our long-term 5-year Pro plan at an even higher discount. With this, you can get everything Write.as has to offer on our Pro plan for just $180, paid once every 5 years (25% off our normal price). This is also available to current and past 5-year subscribers who want to renew their long-lasting subscription. Besides our normal Pro features, our 5-year plan comes with up to _10 blogs_ (instead of the usual 3), plus extra Write.as invites for friends and family, and bonuses like a chance to join office hours with our founder, Matt. Grab this discount before Monday, February 16th at 11:59pm Eastern, when our sale ends — see our **five-year subscription** page to subscribe, restart, or switch from another Pro plan. ## WriteFreely for iOS During this sale, you can also get **33% off** our WriteFreely iOS app! It's just $7.99, paid once, to install on your Apple devices today and get all future updates. This app works with the open source platform behind Write.as, called WriteFreely. That means you can use it to publish to _any_ WriteFreely community, including your Write.as account! Purchase the app on the **App Store** during the sale to grab this special discount. It's been incredible growing, evolving, and creating a writing space for everyone over the last decade. We can't thank you enough for pouring out your words, and choosing to do that here on Write.as. We're excited to keep growing alongside you, and to see what we all write over the _next_ decade! 🎉 #WriteAs #WriteFreely #sale #discount #Deals * * * _Want to be in the loop next time we run a promotion? Add your email address below to subscribe to our updates. As always, we'll never ever use it for any other purpose._

(AKA I need to to stop doom scrolling) > WARNING: I get a little vulnerable here in the beginning here. You have been warned. I’m sure I’ve said something to this effect in the past, even on this very blog. But I think its time I start to re-evalutate my relationship with Tech and the Internet. 2025 has been rough for a few reasons. I can just gesture at “The Horrors” that’s been making me more anxious for months now, when hurt my back by, no joke, coughing funny, and then coughing too hard that hurt it again, fighting with my allergies, and work being… work. During the summer and most of fall, I got super depressed there for a while. and during that time I was doing a lot of doomscrolling. At home, in public, and in worse in bed! This was especially bad on Youtube Shorts and on Bluesky. With YT Shorts I was mindlessly scrolling through videos for that dopamine hit, and Bluesky I was basically reposting ever anxiety that I was having. [...]