1. Brain splatter and say whatever comes to mind
2. Have someone revise and emphasize points, which will then become plot
points for main thesis
3. Revise and reorganize ideas, elaborate on very skimpily developed ideas and
smoothen
It is not about preserving sentences that one feels were intended to be left alone
but rather in detecting what needs to be changed at the moment of revision
4.
Also, when starting a thought, try as hard as you can to finish it rather than
moving onto a new one