There are many ways to prepare yourself for writing that will save you time and energy. Here are four key factors to help you in your efforts .

• Writing is hardest at the beginning.
• Warming up is critical for the writer.
• You can warm up by freewriting.
• Keeping a journal can help your writing.

One way of getting your ideas to flow freely is the technique of brainstorming.

• Brainstorming is the technique of freely jotting down ideas about a topic.

Visualization techniques are extremely helpful in getting the mind to think, remember, and correlate.

• Clustering is using a diagram to think about your topic.

How to best make something that will be interesting to the reader is incorporated in the topic sentence.

• The topic sentence of a paragraph should make a discussible point.

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