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Brainstorming is a great way for writers to generate ideas. A writer who can’t think of anything to write about can use brainstorming to come up with something to write about. It can stimulate your writing brain to help you overcome writer’s block.

If you are stuck for something to write, Google the term brainstorming techniques. You will find many sites with brainstorming techniques. Pick one and set yourself up to do it.

Choose a time to do it and set a time limit to do it. Then do it. It’s a simple concept. I know, idea generation is difficult, especially if you find yourself blocked. If you choose your technique with care, you will find it easy to generate ideas.

The most basic form of brainstorming is free writing. All you need to do that is a timer, a pen and paper or whatever writing tools you have. Then you sit down. Set the timer to fifteen minutes or whatever length of time you want. Then write down whatever words come to mind.

Even if you writer’s block, this method will work. The hardest part of it is to suspend judgementt. Let the words out of your head and onto the page. That’s the key, you don’t judge what you write as you write it. You wait until the timer goes off. Then read over what you’ve written. That’s when you make a decision on what you’ve written.

This is, by no means, the only method you can use, it’s an example. This is what you need to do to overcome writer’s block. It is all you need to do if you need to find an idea to spark a story. Brainstorming is a great tool to use for the process of starting a story of any length.

If you are using it to generate ideas for stories, it can be a gold mine. You generate some ideas then choose the one you want to use. Now, once you pick the idea you want to use, put the others in a folder. You may find you have more ideas than you have time to write at that time. These are the ones you keep for later.

The idea here is to do brainstorming ideas as few times as you can. If you do this type of brainstorming, keeping all the ideas you generated so you can refer to it again later. Only once you’ve used all the ideas in your idea folder, you can brainstorm again.

Brainstorming is a good way to generate ideas if you are stuck for one. It can generate ideas that you can use for quite a time after your initial brainstorming session. You may want to keep all the ideas you generate in a single brainstorming session. If you do that, all you need do is check your ideas folder and see what you have.

Brainstorming can give you a long lasting list of ideas. One session can keep you going for quite a long time. So the next time you are stuck, check your past brainstorming attempts and see what you have. You may surprise yourself.