Let your madman out

Ever feel like you don’t make much progress when you begin drafting a document?

Well, don’t fill too many roles simultaneously! That is, don’t be both a writer and an editor in one sitting. We can be our own worst critics. And analyzing our words, sentences, and paragraphs as we type them can disrupt the drafting process and slow us down unnecessarily.

Instead, follow your stream of consciousness and get everything out of your head without censoring yourself or rethinking what you’ve already written. As writing professor

Betty Flowers said, let your “madman energy flow.” Once the ideas are on the page, then go back and begin tackling the revisions to create full sentences that communicate what you intend.