It is difficult because your standards are higher than what you can dish out effortlessly. That's a good thing. Higher standards are the route to better work, a

It is difficult because your standards are higher than what you can dish out effortlessly. That's a good thing. Higher standards are the route to better work, and towards even higher standards. Make peace with never feeling satisfied! There are two techniques that work for me. Perhaps they will help someone. First, the empty page. The empty sheet is the hardest to tackle. I dump out the main points I want to convey, in no particular order, and I am often surprised at the narrative arc taking shape. There's content hidden inside ones brain that's occluded by the part that's policing the written style. Concentrate on first getting it out in the form of bullet points, small funny phrases, headlines, etc. You could use powerpoint to restrict yourself from having to think in terms of long sentences. Then you look back and see what your brain has conjured up. Second, reviewing. When reviewing a draft, for each set of lines that focus on one idea or concept or theme, write a very short description (4-5 words) of the idea on the margin. Now, start from the top and only read the margin annotations. That gives you a feel for the narrative arc. Give an entire para to an idea if it spans a few sentences.