>We are in complete agreement about banging out the first draft with some speed, then coming back through to clean it up. It's much more productive that way. If you try to get every word exactly right the first time you may forget where you were going.

Exactly the reason I started the other thread. I've discovered that I'm thinking like a programmer when I'm writing, no matter what it is - code, prose or messages. I always want to insert something in the previous sentence, to move a bit from here to there, to rearrange the sentence (from four consecutive lifetimes and six five-to-twenties to just two lifetimes and one 10 to 25 :), delete things etc etc.