@ I had SUPREME writer's block until I finally just gave into writing about exactly what my mind kept coming back to. I didn't have a narrative yet for why that connected to the question of wanting to go to law school/why I would succeed compared to my peers, but I just allowed myself to write about it and it led me to find a personal statement topic. So my advice is, start with anecdotes that stick in your mind when you think about your motivation for going to law school, especially really emotionally charged ones. Even ones that didn't make it into the final essay helped me with introspection!

Side note - I am someone who actually did have a "life-changing experience," and that did not make it any easier to write my statement...it's hard to write about something that feels like it's impacted everything in your life, if that makes sense. I ended up writing about something completely different, and incorporating it as a detail rather than the main topic anyways, so don't feel like you're at a disadvantage for not having an obvious topic.

PS this also helped me brainstorm for my personal statement

Yep same exact position! Instead of trying to pull something together, I told my recommender that my statement was still in draft form and needed a lot of work and instead sent her 2 things that were likely more helpful than a draft personal statement: 1) 2-4 main points you are trying to get across about yourself in your application, tailored to what your recommender knows about you; 2) a quasi-essay in bullet point form recalling highlights of the time you spent and what you did with your recommender (i.e. "If you remember, I was very torn about my essay topic, and you helped me in this way...")

Me too!