Swimming in a Sea of Article Ideas
by Linda Gilden @LindaGilden Recently I attended a swim meet to watch some of the grandchildren. Chatting with a few friends between events, someone asked, �How do you find ideas to write about?� �Well,� I said, �it�s kind of like all the world is a swimming pool full of ideas and at any time all we have to do it look around and pick one.� �That may work for you,� my friend said. �But I can�t ever seem to find anything to write about.� As another event for the six and under swimmers began, I said to her, �Look at this event. Some of the swimmers are just three years old. They aren�t quite ready to swim an entire lap without a lot of encouragement. In the lanes where the youngest swimmers are, a teenager is also in the water several feet in front of the swimmer coaxing him or her on to the finish. The encourager never touches the swimmer but keeps the swimmer striving to get where the encourager is.� �That�s really sweet, but what does that have to do with finding ideas?� I looked at my...