I do this too. I just write. It's much easier to clean up and adjust (tens of) thousands of words consisting of raw consciousness, than it is to write just 500

I do this too. I just write. It's much easier to clean up and adjust (tens of) thousands of words consisting of raw consciousness, than it is to write just 500 words of pure perfection. It's not all nonsense, of course, but it's a stream of information just being beamed at the screen (via my fingers.) Even this very comment was written like this: just smash out how I feel and then go back and refine it, but not too much, because it's just a comment. I find bullet points help too. Instead of writing in paragraphs or even simple sentences, I find bullet points remove all the barriers of getting information on to the page/screen, because formatting isn't even a concern. Once you have enough points, expand them with sub-points and keep going. Eventually turn those bullet points into prose and fly my pretty, fly :-)