When i started writing i felt the pressure to always go from draft to a polished piece. i posted a couple things i worked semi hard on and received 0 views/reads because i don't really have much of an online presence at all.

From there i kinda just moved on and write purely for myself, and use it to up my own thoughts. Very rarely, something will receive a second pass days later, and thats just more to go back on my past thoughts and try to tighten them if i feel that is needed.

I tend to split my day into two parts, my work hours and my "unplug" hours, and the writing was mostly landing in those unplug hours as a way to sorta summarize my day. Last week or so I decided im moving that writing into the very first thing I do each day, and it has really been absurdly effective at getting new ideas flowing quickly. I used to depend on my later day brain that was somewhat "depleted", for lack of a better way to describe how i work, and from there that would kinda birth what i work on the next morning, with maybe some iteration while working.

Now instead I just do both, I open the day with ~500-1500 words, just anything that comes out, then i potentially get stuck, and ill maybe dump that to a model as just a modern rubber duck, not anything like "write for me, or finish this thought", just a kinda nudge to really toss back at me what im fully considering and then maybe i pivot back and chase down the most interesting of the topics for a few hundred more words, or get straight to work on what i thought was the most vital of all those ideas to chase while im fresh in the morning.