One of the most common pieces of writing advice is to “just get words down on the page”. In fact, the advice is so common that it’s often repeated without question.

While “just getting words down” appears to help in the short term, unless you know how to sort those words into some kind of logical order, filling hundreds of pages is just going to create a lot of stress later.

But if you understand structure, you can give your writing a logical order from the start, making it far easier to edit later…