A good way to begin elaborating your ideas is to try to complete sentences like the following:

What bugs me is ….

The problem is ….

What intrigues me is ….

What I can’t figure out is ….

What I would really like to know is ….

An important question(s) to ask is ….

Where I am now is ….

What seems to me to be happening is ….

What I would like to see happen is ….

What I am going to have to examine is ….