I'm much like you, but like Daryl, my spelling is nearly always picture-perfect. My grammar usually comes out right the first time, too. The only way I've ever been able to make the latter happen is to never lapse into any of the net.speak literary degradation devices: i never use all lowercase type, i don't try 2 use letters as words like U might seem sum kiddie5 do, and I get the shakes when I even try [like just now ;)].

Kinda spiff.

Now, I am not a fan of the editing process. I've been a copy-editor and a general editor [egad, TOTK.com Sports now suffers from my absence], but for myself, I rarely, if ever, edit. This encourages me to get it right the first time. Unless I'm having issues with transitions--unlike you, I don't put a place for the transition, though maybe I should--it just comes right off the keyboard and out the door. Some of my longest entries on GFMorris.com have merely come out in the amount of time it's taken me to type them.

Why? I fear the invasion of the N.A.D.D., so I shut off all outside interference and focus for that brief, glorious few moments of creativity.

Then I'll get back to my eight IM windows and the two radios in the background [one news, one music].