How Can You Use Brainwriting For Your Story Ideas?

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Brainwriting (or 6–3–5) was invented in 1986 by Bernd Rohrbach, a German marketing professional, as a better version of the well-known Brainstorming.

Because you:

• get more ideas in less time
• produce more diversity than with brainstorming
• give others a voice who are more “introverted”
• work in silence with a group

The method:

Write or sketch your ideas silently on a sheet of paper and give it to the neighbour who builds on those previous suggestions. This continues until the last person has written down their thoughts.

It works in all creative writing or hyperwriting seminars, but also in chat groups and virtual meetings.

This method also helps you as a single writer:

Write down the thoughts, ideas and observations from the texts of other writers on your topic in a row to get the variety of impressions for your story.