Just Start Writing Down Your Ideas — Here’s Why

It works for me as a writer.

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You may have heard this a thousand times before now.

Ideas can come from anywhere.

I’m sure you’ve heard of a brain dump before. It’s when we are writing down everything in our mind and not stopping until we have completed the task.

And guess what?

It actually works.

I just starting writing things down. Here’s why:

More Ideas, the Better Stories

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When I start generating ideas by writing down everything on my mind, it helps me better understand what topics I want to turn into Medium stories. Seriously, it does.

This is what I write down, for example:

• What made me happy on a certain day
• What angered me
• What I want to learn more about
• And more

I ask myself what if all the time and write down those particular ideas.