Writers Tool Box

This article, The Writers Toolbox, was given to us to show different ways of coming up with ideas. The article went through five different ways that you can use writing to come up with ideas, or continue to form new ideas off the ones you already have. The article started with the type of brainstorming that we used for our think and make project, mind maps. A mind map is a spider web like design that gets all of your words on the page. You start with one single word in the middle; this would be your main idea. You then draw off other words that make you think of the product. After you have those sub-categories you work to get down all of the ideas you have for the sub categories. The next idea for creating ideas was the concept map. This is very similar to the mind map, except you work off of concepts. Instead of making a web of ideas, you make a web of concepts, and work off of those. The third option was free writing. This is similar to the process of journaling. You start with your idea and then just continue to write everything that comes to your mind about the original word. The only problem I see with this concept is that I feel like by the end of your writing your thoughts could be scattered through in an unorganized manner. The fourth idea was brain writing. This is practically the same process as free writing but you go about it in a much more organized way. The fifth and final idea is a word list. This is different from free writing and brain writing because you do it in a list form. This could be more helpful for a lot of people because as the writing said, lists are apart of our daily lives, which would make the style more familiar.