> Usually I write sentences as they pop into my mind, then I edit them down into more numerous, shorter sentences. This is interesting to me, because I do the

> Usually I write sentences as they pop into my mind, then I edit them down into more numerous, shorter sentences. This is interesting to me, because I do the exact opposite. I write my clauses more or less independently, then try to string the related clauses together with linking words punctuation in a way that flows naturally. I can't imagine composing long, complex sentences on the fly, and the only people I've seen that manage to do this in conversation are unusually erudite.