I've always been a big proponent of "write the part of the article you feel you have the most info on first" as a way of getting out of writer's block. Get the information down first and then worry about their artistry of your sentences and transitions and structure later. For creative writing, I would similarly advise to skip ahead in your story to a scene you feel confident about and then come back to the stuff that's troubling you later.
I changed my whole approach to writing 20 years back after spending a day with Budd Schulberg (won the Oscar for the On the Waterfront screenplay, wrote the great novel What Makes Sammy Run and early in his career was assigned to work with F. Scott Fitzgerald on a screenplay). Budd, then 89, was working on an outline of a screen adaptation for What Makes Sammy Run (optioned by Ben Stiller at the time, never produced). I mentioned that something as involved as a 120-page script would need an outline. He said: "If I have a 600-word review to write for the NYT Book Review, I do an outline. I do an outline of everything." Since then I have to--although I didn't outline this comment. Even sketching a schematic helps organize thought. My two cents.
I've always been a big proponent of "write the part of the article you feel you have the most info on first" as a way of getting out of writer's block. Get the information down first and then worry about their artistry of your sentences and transitions and structure later. For creative writing, I would similarly advise to skip ahead in your story to a scene you feel confident about and then come back to the stuff that's troubling you later.
I changed my whole approach to writing 20 years back after spending a day with Budd Schulberg (won the Oscar for the On the Waterfront screenplay, wrote the great novel What Makes Sammy Run and early in his career was assigned to work with F. Scott Fitzgerald on a screenplay). Budd, then 89, was working on an outline of a screen adaptation for What Makes Sammy Run (optioned by Ben Stiller at the time, never produced). I mentioned that something as involved as a 120-page script would need an outline. He said: "If I have a 600-word review to write for the NYT Book Review, I do an outline. I do an outline of everything." Since then I have to--although I didn't outline this comment. Even sketching a schematic helps organize thought. My two cents.
I am offended by your choice of Worst. Pizza. Ever.
My feelings about Bob Knight align perfectly with yours. Could never understand why parents would ever allow their kids to play for him.