GETTING STARTED

Ideas to get you started:
Here are a few strategies to use when you’re looking for a topic to write about or you’re trying to expand on that topic.

• Journaling: routine writing always helps the ideas flow
• 5 W’s: Where, When, What, Why, Who (and How)
• Listen/talk with people around you
• Create a dialogue (with character or intended audience)
• Freewrite: Start writing anything that comes to mind, don’t take your pen/pencil off the paper, don’t worry about grammar or spelling, if struck, repeat the last word.
• Cluster/Webs (see below)
• Lists

Research your subject if necessary, but make sure you have plenty of knowledge about what you are writing.