I learned this!

The invention activities today reminded me how impotant it can be just to dump your ideas onto a sheet of clean paper. Even the least interested writer can spew out a string of thoughts dealing with a general topic. Before I've begun the activities, they never seem that promising, but they inevitably lead me to something worth investigating. I hope I'll remember to use them, and I hope I'll get a chance to recommend them to my li'l writers!