How to Beat Writer's Block and Build a GREAT Personal Statement
Writing a personal statement can be an incredibly stressful and frustrating process. A great personal statement is VITAL for your graduate school admissions, but you've never written one before, so how do you do it? Where to start? What to include? I think that there are two important things to do at the beginning of your personal statement writing process. (1) Make as much of the process as possible lower-stress by doing your brainstorming and outlining without outside input. If you feel like you're writing for someone else, it can sometimes cause you to tighten up. So early in the process, instead focus on generating content for your graduate school personal statement that is just meant for you. (2) Before you start outlining, do some free-form / brainstorming exercises that are just designed to explore the questions. When you're not focused on "writing an essay" but instead on just thinking on paper, you'll discover and uncover some great thoughts.
This video explores a really useful first step for how to generate ideas.
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