Legal Writing

Don Marquis, American journalist and creator of the characters Archy and Mehitabel, said, "I never think when I write; nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well."

That's a good practice to follow. Do your thinking at the planning stage of your writing process, then again at the revising stage. In between, try to draft without "thinking." That is, try to turn off your inner critic (I call him or her the Internal Editor), give yourself permission to be "wrong," and draft as thoughtlessly as you can. Then, and only then, go back and think!