How To Brainstorm A College Essay

There is nothing scarier than a blinking computer cursor on a blank screen. So fill that screen up with terrible ideas.You have permission. Just give yourself a topic and write freely for at least 5 minutes. Go ahead and set a timer. You may surprise yourself with a spark of an idea. If nothing else, you’ve skipped right over that annoying writer’s block. And here’s the real secret. All college essays start off terrible. You have to carve something beautiful out of the terrible by re-writing and revising. This is where sleep comes in. Let your ugly duckling essay alone for a day or two, then come back to it with fresh eyes and start polishing it up. It helps to read it aloud. If you are stumbling over saying something, the reader is probably stumbling over reading it.