The document discusses three writing techniques: brainstorming, freewriting, and word mapping. Brainstorming involves generating lists of ideas to discover topics to write about. Freewriting involves writing continuously about a topic without worrying about structure, spelling, or grammar. It has four steps: writing the topic, freely writing ideas until running out, circling ideas to develop further, and rewriting a circled idea as a new title. Word mapping visually links ideas in a cluster or spidergram.