How You can Show off and Brush up Your Writing Skills in Your Target Langauge Writing is one of the most important language skills that everyone should have when they are trying to learn a new language. Anyone should know how to write perfectly and brilliantly in their target language, but sometime they can't find a good topic in order to show off their writing skills. I think finding a good idea for writing is a key to brush up your writing skills. Maybe, you're asking yourself how you can find good topics for your writing, right? Well, I'll answer your question quickly. Sometimes, you can get an idea from good quotes. Great quotes always inspire you to write about your feeling and the way you think. I remember, once I heard a great quotes about history and the future. That quotation encouraged me to write more about it, to express my feeling, and thoughts. Another way to find a good idea is to read people's notes on forums. You can presumably find a lot of interesting notes on forums that motivate you to write your own entry. I’m not saying that you have to read a wide array of notes on forums every day, but if you look at them from time to time, you can not only expand your vocabularies, but you can also learn from others' grammatical mistakes, so you can easily escape those mistakes when you are trying to write your own entry. Again I remember, once I found a good notebook entry on italki. After reading it, I tried to write a notebook about it. You can find good ideas when you are reading magazines or newspapers as well. You can also write about history, art, music, movie,books, children, poetry, your dreams, travel and friends. The more you read, the more you know. Do you come up with a new idea? P.S. keep in mind, practice makes perfect. Start writing your own notebook now. Don't be disappointed and keep it up.