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When I try to write something I do not edit anything. I just write. Editing is the issue for future me. Or someone elese. But it will be the last step. I have not decided yet. And I write short stories, such that I can finish one in an evening without pauses. All of them together form a bigger story. You do not have to write short stories but you can organize chapters to be short enough to be finished in an evening.
There's the saying: "write drunk, edit sober", that's probably falsely attributed to one author or the other.
I wouldn't recommend drinking, but although I'm not a writer, sometimes hyperfocus has a similar trippy energy for me. So I guess the advice to use that energy and focus on putting text on paper and iron it out afterwards is kinda comparable.
Write drunk, edit never.
-Bukowski, probably