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April 4: Start writing with a Mind Map
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April 4: Start writing with a Mind Map

Sketch a mind map when planning a document.

Danny Sheridan
Apr 4
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Source: The Writer’s Kitchen
Published: March 2022

Start writing with a Mind Map

Mind maps provide a structured way to capture, organize, and connect ideas. Sketch a mind map when planning a document.

Here’s an example of a mind map inspired by Amazonian Fawn Sanchez, AWS Support Training Manager and president of Indigenous at Amazon.

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  • Benefits

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    • VP-Level Goal

How do you brainstorm before you write? Share in the comments, and I’ll feature the top idea in an upcoming fact.

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David Hunter
Apr 4

After I mind map, I identify the logical grouping of the different sections. Usually, I can draw boundaries around the different sections of the mind map to make several main topics. Then I make that my outline. I give each group/topic a title and then put the mind map items into bullet points under the list. The next step is to just turn that into a narrative, writing a sentence or two for each bullet point.

This process helps me get a draft of a document written very quickly. I like to imagine it as a translation process from what's in your brain to something linear. And the mind map is the first step at trying to make the 3 dimensional connections in our brain more linear.

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