Let’s take a look at a few top tips.

Authors Get Their Ideas Everywhere Mainly because we don’t know where to begin. Authors get their ideas everywhere. Newspapers, TV, movies, other books, overheard conversations, dreams, nightmares, people we’ve met, loved, hated, been married to. And sometimes we have no idea how we got an idea!

Here’s what they said.

• Identify your market.
• Develop your world through short stories.
• Plot out your story before you begin.
• Tie your worldbuilding into your plot.
• Keep your story relevant through real-world themes.
• Use all five of your senses.
• Give your world internal rules.
• But don’t go breaking your own rules.

1. Brainstorm, brainstorm, brainstorm. Brainstorming is something all writers should be doing.
2. Research for further inspiration.
3. Refine and clarify your central idea.
4. Focus on character goals and conflict.
5. Weave smaller ideas into your central concept.
6. Give yourself time.
7. 7. …

Generating Ideas

1. Brainstorming. This is a technique with which you are probably already familiar.
2. Make Notes. Similar to brainstorming except that these are more structured.
3. Speed Writing.
4. Sleep on It!
5. Read ’round’ the topic.
6. Use questions.
7. Cubing.
8. Discussion.

Here are a few ways to generate ideas in your classroom:

1. Mentor Texts. Mentor texts are any piece of literature that is used as a model for students to emulate in their own writing.
2. Conversation Starters.
3. Heart Maps.
4. Listing Possible Topics.
5. This or That.
6. Rolling the Dice.
7. Love it or Loathe it! (

1. Start with a free write.
2. Use experiences, places, vocab words, or other things that are relevant and specific to your students’ lives.
3. Expose students to a range of genres.
4. And, in turn, encourage students to experiment with different genres.
5. Give them graphs, charts, and diagrams to demonstrate the writing process.

One method for teaching writing is writing demonstrations. Students watch as a proficient writer writes, and thinks aloud, similar to an audience watching a chef on a cooking show. Write in front of your students and think aloud as you’re doing it. Thinking aloud is a research-based teaching strategy.

Here are eight writing strategies King shares that have helped him sell 350 million books:

• Tell the truth.
• Don’t use big words when small ones work.
• Use single-sentence paragraphs.
• Write for your Ideal Reader.
• Read a lot.
• Write one word at a time.
• Write every day.
• Write for the joy of it.

The reason you can’t think of anything new and Creative is because you haven’t practiced coming up with new ideas every single day. For example, if you are a photographer, you should be constantly training yourself to observe how composition, light, and Color work in the real world.

If you can’t come up with a good idea, try brainstorming a bad one to get your creative juices flowing. Sometimes you just can’t force a good idea to pop into your head. Doing something is better than doing nothing, however. If you’re at a loss for good ideas, try coming up with a bad one.

Many students feel writing takes too long. For some, writing is a very laborious task because there are so many sub-components which need to be pulled together. For others, the reason lies in some processing difficulties, such as dyslexia or dysgraphia.

To stop being so hard on yourself, you have to block out thoughts about how your readers might react to your work, and just focus on the writing. While you’re writing for your readers, you’re also writing for yourself. Try switching projects, starting a new project, or freewriting.

Many students with ADHD labor with their fine motor coordination, resulting in slower, messier penmanship that can be very difficult to read. 3 Simply sustaining the attention and mental energy required for writing can be a struggle for someone with ADHD.