Write in your own voice.

This article may get back to some earlier discussions regarding just getting something written, but often writer's who attempt to write in a tone or with diction that is unnatural to them, may find themselves getting stuck on how to phrase something.

Just write it how you would say it.

If you don't like it or the passage doesn't fit you can always alter it later. When writing a first draft don't worry so much about grammar. Try not to fret over comma splices, don't worry about ending sentences with prepositions because you need to give yourself a base to start from. Not everyone will notice (many will!) but its better to have something not completely correct than nothing at all.

For academics this is akin to handing in a C paper as opposed to handing in no paper. At least it's something. Feel free, in a first draft, to use slang, colloquialisms, over used metaphors, bad grammar, or to wind up on the wrong side of a homophone. You can correct your use of elicit drugs after you right about them.

Writing should be Zen. Fret during the correction process.

Just please for all our sanities, have a correction process.

Tons of errors in this article, most all of them deliberate, but at least I wrote something.

In speech, we make errors, we run off topic. We also don't note punctuation. We also use informal words and phrases.