This is anecdotal, unscientific and has no real basis to it what so ever, but I have one possible interpretation. I'm overly critical of everything if write, b

This is anecdotal, unscientific and has no real basis to it what so ever, but I have one possible interpretation. I'm overly critical of everything if write, be it code or prose. I tend to overcomplicate things when I write. I think too far ahead and tend to get paralyzed of by the matrix of things I thing I need to consider. I think I need to understand the problem in its totality before I can write anything. As I get tired, I get less critical, and possibly my short term memory gets worse. Suddenly I'm in a situation where instead of constantly being critical of my ideas, I have to keep of writing them down just to remember them and to fully formulate them. The part of my brain that tells me it's crap has fallen asleep. And the part that kept taps of EVERYTHING has shrunken down to only hold a few items or ideas at a time. And suddenly the code is there. Done. I wrote it. Now let's write the next idea before I forget it. I'll go through it all later. The effect is most obvious for me with prose. I used to get nothing done during the day. I just kept thinking all my writing is worthless. But then at aroun 1-3 AM, I would write a dozen pages. I would barely be awake, but my fingers would fly almost like on auto-pilot.