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Quick texts - how to choose a topic The challenge is to write a short text in about 15 min. When thinking about what to write about I noticed the abundance of topics available. I imagine that this text will be quite random as I just want to jot down some thoughts on that topic. I was just pondering about 10 different things when suddenly started to rain outside. A related weather topic is the newly changed language in some parts of the world from climate change to extreme weather. This year here in London the summer was a bit special as it wasn't raining much for one to two months. I was wondering the whole time when the councils will introduce the garden hose ban again. But it did not come after all. In the last month it was raining more and three days ago it rained 38 mm. Recently when I went to a mindfulness session there was an exercise to count your thoughts during a 5-10 min period. I think I had only about 10 different thoughts whilst others had 50 different thoughts at the same time. Each thought is a good idea for a notebook entry. One thing I like about this platform is how original the content is. It is extra interesting because lots of brainy people are here that go the extra mile to learn a new language. So far I only came across one case where I wan't sure if I was correcting somebodies homework. One topic to write about are weekend plans. Petty much every weekend there are 20 different things to do. The list is already so long as I pushed off many things for a long time. Another reason is that I cannot let go easily. I think I have a slight oversensitive attention span to almost everything that comes along my way. So I keep many things for later when there is less to do but so far I never got bored. So I am slowly running out of characters again and I only touched on a few topics. At the moment I want to spend a lot of time learning English. This means I should do an English test tomorrow to see for which level I should learn. I also want to record some spoken English to share it on the internet. Especially I like learning new vocabulary. It is quite easy to see the progress and new words are learned quickly. With grammar it is a different story. As always many thanks for your feedback.

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Quick texts - how to choose a topic

The challenge is to write a short text in about 15 min.

When thinking about what to write about, I noticed an [although "the" is better if you were looking at a particular list of topics"] abundance of topics available.
I imagine that this text will be quite random, as I just want to jot down some thoughts on that topic.

I was just pondering about 10 different things, when suddenly, it started to rain outside. A related weather topic is the newly changed language in some parts of the world from climate change to extreme weather.
This year, here in London, the summer was a bit special, as it wasn't raining much for one to two months. I was wondering the whole time when the councils will introduce the garden hose ban again. But it did not come after all. In the last month it has been raining more and three days ago it rained 38 mm.

Recently, when I went to a mindfulness session, there was an exercise to count your thoughts during a 5-10 min period. I think I had only about 10 different thoughts, whilst others had 50 different thoughts at the same time. Each thought is a good idea for a notebook entry.

One thing I like about this platform is how original the content is. It is extra interesting because lots of brainy people are here that go the extra mile to learn a new language. So far, I only came across one case where I wasn't sure if I was correcting somebodies homework.

One topic to write about is weekend plans. Pretty much every weekend there are 20 different things to do. The list is already so long, as I pushed off many things for a long time. Another reason is that I cannot let go easily. I think I have a slight oversensitive attention span to almost everything that comes along my way. So I keep many things for later, when there is less to do, but so far I have never got bored.

So, I am slowly running out of characters again and I only touched on a few topics. At the moment, I want to spend a lot of time learning English. This means I should do an English test tomorrow, to see for which level I should learn. I also want to record some spoken English to share it on the internet.
I especially like learning new vocabulary. It is quite easy to see the progress, and new words are learned quickly. With grammar it is a different story.

As always, many thanks for your feedback.

Overall very well written. As you can see, I really only added in a few commas here and there. In contrast to German, commas are used a lot more frequently in English. Here's a good resource which might help you in determining when to use them. http://www.businessinsider.com/a-guide-to-proper-comma-use-2013-9

Quick texts - how to choose a topic

The challenge is to write a short text in about 15 min.

When thinking about what to write about I noticed the abundance of topics available.
I imagine that this text will be quite random as I just want to jot down some thoughts on that topic.

I was just pondering about 10 different things when it suddenly started to rain outside. A related weather weather-related [this sounds slightly more natural] topic is the newly changed language in some parts of the world from climate change to extreme weather.
This year here in London the summer was a bit special as it wasn't raining much for one to two months. I was wondering the whole time when the councils will would introduce the garden hose ban again. But it did not come after all. In the last month it was raining more and three days ago it rained 38 mm.

Recently when I went to a mindfulness session there was an exercise to count your thoughts during a 5-10 min period. I think I had only about 10 different thoughts whilst others had 50 different thoughts at the same time. Each thought is a good idea for a notebook entry.

One thing I like about this platform is how original the content is. It is extra interesting because lots of brainy people are here that who go the extra mile to learn a new language. So far I only came across one case where I wasn't sure if I was correcting somebodies somebody's homework.

One topic to write about are weekend plans. Petty much every weekend there are 20 different things to do. The list is already so long as I pushed off many things for a long time. Another reason is that I cannot let go of things easily. I think I have a slight oversensitive attention span to almost everything that comes along my way. So I keep many things for later when there is less to do but so far I have never gotten bored.

So I am slowly running out of characters again and I only touched on a few topics. At the moment I want to spend a lot of time learning English. This means I should do an English test tomorrow to see for which level I should learn. I also want to record some spoken English to share it on the internet.
Especially I I especially [it sounds more natural] like learning new vocabulary. It is quite easy to see the progress and new words are learned quickly. With grammar it is a different story.

As always many thanks for your feedback.

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