This one is for the writer in all of you. Peter Elbow in his book Writing With Power discusses the mutual exclusiveness that is needed when writing something. Be it creative copy, or a business memo. On one hand you need to let your words flow: humorously, creatively, or informatively. And on the other hand, we’re constantly editing ourselves as we work, checking the grammar, the sentence structure etc.
The solution is an old one, as Hemingway once said, “Write hot, and edit cold." Get your words down, in their big bulky uncomfortable sentences, and then attack them with garden shears. (Luke Sullivan).
Digging for gold requires mountains of dirt and stone to be moved. So to with writing, you need to build mountains of crappy sentences and wrong words, to find those beautiful paragraphs that shine so brightly on the empty white background.