"Before you type even a word, determine what you want to say." I disagree. Writing is part of the process of determining what you want to say. It's an imaginar

"Before you type even a word, determine what you want to say." I disagree. Writing is part of the process of determining what you want to say. It's an imaginary conversation with your reader and with your conscience. We all have vast quantities of ideas bouncing around in our heads, like those animated gifs of Brownian motion. Writing is a way of coralling them. It's useful to cultivate an inner voice that asks "is that true?". Every time you write a word, get your voice to ask if that word is true. Which actually sounds very like insanity, but seems to work.