Writing Topics

If you want to be a writer or just want to write better, then you need to write everyday. You can write on anything and about anything. Write whatever you want, whatever strikes your fancy.

Write about your dreams or nightmares. Write about your day’s successes or failures. Write about what you saw or wish you had not seen or wish to see. Write on anything special for that day. Use my Special Suggestions for Any Given Day. Write about my standby topics, TIL, Gratitude, or Contribution.

Special Suggestions for any given day

• For Daily writing topics see here: Class writing topics.
• December 27, 2019 – What is your New Year’s resolution?
  
  A resolution is a promise to one’s self. Many people make New Year’s resolutions, a promise to themselves to do or not do something to improve themselves in the new year. Most people will fail in their resolution before the end of January. What is your New Year’s resolution and how much does it mean to you?
• December 18,2019 – If you could give someone a meaningful gift for Christmas, what would you want to give to whom, and why?
• December 13, 2019 – People ask themselves “what do I want?” People should ask themselves, “what do I need to do to get what I want?”
  
  What do you need to do to get what you want?
  
• December 11, 2019 – What action can you take today to improve yourself?
• December 6, 2019 – Who do you want for a mentor?
• December 3, 2019 – Who is your hero? Whom do you admire / want to be like?
• November 29, 2019 – How do YOU make ramyeon?
  • Everyone has a special way to make ramyeon. How do you make ramyeon?
• November 27, 2019 – What have you learned that you think everyone should know?

Suggestions for Any Day and Everyday

I want to think about these topics everyday. I want take care of my mind and my soul, and I want a sense of contribution in life. I want to write about the following. You should too.

• TIL – Today I learned: What did I learn today? (mind)
• Gratitude – What am I thankful for? (spirit / soul /happiness)
• What good did I do today? (contribution)

“You find what you’re looking for”

Me, in my brief moment of insight.

TIL – Today I Learned

We learn things everyday or we should. If you think that you didn’t learn anything today, then you think that because you didn’t pay attention. If you went home everyday knowing that you would be excited to tell your father or write in your journal “Today I learned…”, then you would look for and find something interesting to tell your father …or write in your journal.

Gratitude

Be specific. You’ll experience more gratitude when you consciously and deliberately bring to mind the thousands of hours of effort your mother has put into raising you, the fact that she wants the best for you, and the little things she did for you than when you simply say that you’re grateful for your mother.

“Being specific is effective for two reasons,” writes Emmons in his book Gratitude Works! “First, it helps us avoid gratitude fatigue. The more discrete the elements, the less we will cease to recognize them or take any one of them for granted.”

Good writing is specific. Good writing is concrete. Good writing lies not in ideas but in examples. Be thankful for small things and write about them in detail.

What good did I do today?

Benjamin Franklin started his journal each morning with “what good will I do today” and ended his journal every night with “what good did I do today?” Simply asking the question focused his attention. “The question is the answer” ~ Me, in my other brief moment of insight.

“The question is the answer”

Me, in my other brief moment of insight.