| If you have a nice topic for your next writing | | | | then need to explore each one. How? By |
| task, you will eventually find it easier to start your | | | | freewriting about. If you recall, freewriting is a |
| writing with creative and related ideas that keep | | | | process of just letting any thought that comes to |
| on flowing. | | | | mind about a topic make its way to paper, |
| Some people say getting started is the hardest | | | | regardless of its factualness, correctness or |
| part of any job. If that were true, then finding a | | | | validity. Do this for every topic you are seriously |
| topic to write about should fall squarely into the | | | | considering in your list. By the way, some writing |
| toughest aspects of any writing work. | | | | assistant software can incorporate freewriting |
| 1. List down possible topics. The first step is | | | | exercises into their features, so take advantage |
| always to list down your options. Take a piece of | | | | of those when you can. |
| paper and write down every issue you can come | | | | 3. After freewriting, take a look at what you |
| up with. Word of note: make sure they are real | | | | have written. The ones where your freewritten |
| issues, with equal potential for arguments on both | | | | words read sensibly and eloquently are usually the |
| affirmative and dissenting opinions. If it's not open | | | | topics that you can deal with thoughtfully. Pick |
| to debate (e.g. a proven scientific fact), it's not an | | | | them out and begin looking deeply into which ones |
| issue. | | | | you can make strong, evidence-supported |
| 2. After selecting a list of candidate topics, you | | | | arguments with. |