I used to write a series of 150-word articles for a client.
Do you think your writing is “too short” for a mind map? If you have an overall concept of what you are writing each time you sit down to write, then that should help you swat away the tendrils of TMI and keep you focused. Again, the purpose is not to organize, it’s to provoke the aha! experience that increases your motivation to write. While you can start with one mind map for a large project like a book or thesis, I recommend doing many additional mind maps - perhaps as many as several a day. The purpose? Inspiration! Are you doing only one mind map for a very large project? This may sound a bit gross, but I like to describe mind mapping as “vomiting onto the page.” A mind map gives you the chance to empty your brain, not organize it. Don’t worry about the order in which you write things down. Don’t be overly concerned about which circles link with which.
The whole point of mind mapping is to avoid the pitfalls of outlining (mainly, thinking in a linear, non-creative way), so be sure to keep your mind map nice and loosey goosey. If you haven’t successfully combined mind mapping and writing in the past, you may have been making one of the five mistakes commonly committed by writers new to the practice.Ĭheck to see if these questions apply to you… Are you treating your mind map like an outline? To learn more about mind mapping and tapping into your creative potential, read Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques.Īnd, here are Gray-Grant’s tips for mind mapping… How to Mind Map a Story or Article for Writers
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