Stuck for Writing Ideas?

Google is a great search engine and it even helps writers. If you are stuck for an idea, write a word, almost any word, into Google. Viola, a list of stories, ideas, pieces of information, other’s thoughts, all pop up.

Whether you are writing fiction or non-fiction, it is still an easy and free way to gather ideas.

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Here’s an example, say you are looking at a blank screen and you have no idea what to write. Try typing in the first word that comes into your head. For me, it’s normally elephant (I have no idea why but it probably says mountains about me).

OK, so I type elephant into Google (or any other search engine really) and up comes 39,400,000 entries. Some are pictures, music, video, encylopedia entries, the lot. If you can’t write a good story with a picture of an elephant taking a shower in front of you, you just aren’t trying.

More seriously, there are articles about zoo poo that can give you ideas for articles on the environment, sci fi hints for a brave new world, a personal tale of your time as a child seeing your first elephant in the zoo or circus – there are a ton of things.

Go on, give it a try.