This document provides information on different brainstorming techniques to help generate ideas for writing, including clustering, listing, and freewriting. Clustering involves writing a main topic in the center of a page and surrounding it with related subtopics and ideas. Listing simply makes a bulleted list of ideas. Freewriting is writing continuously about a topic without stopping to think about structure or grammar in order to get ideas flowing. Examples of each technique are included to illustrate how to use them.