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.