A method of writing content easily with little anxiety

To me, the difference between the colloquial term "brainstorming" and this site's term "babble and prune" [? · GW] is the intentional choice to split the activity into two phases: an unfiltered idea generation phase followed by a filtering/editing phase. Emphasis on "unfiltered", for the anxiety-reducing and writer's block circumventing reasons you gave.

I'd be grateful for an update down the line, if you come across any unexpected benefits/shortcomings.

This generalizes to actions.

Lots of people I know, including me, take way fewer actions than is optimal because we are trying to avoid making mistakes instead of trying to get what we want. (In some cases that's just a cover story and we're actually trying to avoid revealing our location or preferences, so that we're not a target.) But in lots of contexts if you just do things, instead of trying to supervise your intentions so you only do things you've preapproved, you can get lots more done that you want to do. 

If you're worried that this is risky, you can think about what's likely to go wrong and how important that is in the specific context where you're considering to just do stuff, and plan ahead to mitigate the risks worth mitigating.

I am attempting to write a response in the same manner. 

This reminds me of automatic drawing. Automatic writing is an obvious correlate. The dramatic tension of the underbelly of fleeting meeting gets drawn up into the universe and doesn't very much write the thing itself. 

A pause is suggested.

When the dramatic moment is over, there's something left behind. It accepts a period. Differences in text suggest differences in author. 

Moreover, the strategy presents itself as golden. 

I suppose I will finish here.

Oooo thanks for this, just used it to write a post for my blog and it was more fun and easier than usual: My Anxiety Keeps Persisting Even Though It Has Been Diagnosed, Rude 

Interesting!

Since about 2-3 weeks back, this is how I write.

Based on some kind of writer-instinct. Markov chain completion. "Babbling". Going with the flow. I simply output words, until I reach the point where it feels right to stop.

Corrections and edits are the same ways. Look over the text and go with the feeling. Add more text where it feels incomplete, where the transitions feel abrupt. Sometimes this type of corrections redirect the text on a new trajectory, making the old version obsolete. Sometimes not.

Having never written fiction before, I wrote an 8k word story in 3-4 days (and abandonded, because it was kinda cringy). Still, I was really happy with the attempt.

There's also Ultraspeaking, which is a set of exercises for learning to do this but for spoken speech. If you are the kind of a person who finds it difficult to make conversation, you can try to just start saying something and then let your brain "autocomplete" the rest, by essentially the same kind of process as described in this post. I definitely feel like I've been able to level up some of my conversational skills by practicing that process.

EDIT: This was my attempt to do what you suggested.

EDIT2: I feel like what I'm talking about is something more generally applicable. You can use it for decision making. 

Another reason I like it is because I tend to have mental filters in place, that prevent me from thinking about something that seems difficult. This helps because I think I just let my self occupy the thought that feels like it would be too hard to think and trust in my intuition to lead me somewhere useful instead of trying to force things? Probably not true. Anywho, for people with mental scars like me, this kind of thing is useful. Don't know why. But it also reminds me of what SquirrellInHell is talking about in BeWellTuned. Like you're like a CEO or maybe someone who sends ratings to various thoughts/plans that come up, and your brain decides what to do as a result. If you just ignore your job, then parts of your brain will get fed up and start not trusting you to rate good plans as good and you become lazy, time incosistent and hate yourself. I feel BeWellTuned has a much better description than I do.

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What an interesting way to write. But I think it is more like babble than anything else. If you don't have good babble, you're probably not going to produce anything useful by doing this. My internal experience seems more like a series of suggestions, potential next ideas and corrections to make. On occasion, I might get a feeling that says "no, that's not right" and have to iterate next part of the sentence a bunch. And my feelings tend to be right, so I don't try to "forge ahead". Honestly, I have been doing what I describe for a while when making my notes. It results in a great deal more productivity, though I don't do it nearly as often as I should. 

I was viewing it as something like a linked list of suggestions, where you don't know what will happen if you follow the next suggestion, but invariably something useful will come of it.  Your description of it as a seris of max likelihood predictions kind of matches, except I'll often have like 7 or 8 things that I think are worth writing, and they can apply to various parts of the text I've written or even be continuations of thoughts I've not written down for whatever reason. So I'm paying attention to ealier parts and that's helping me generate stuff. So I guess what I'm saying, is that it is less linear in some sense than what I think you're talking about. 

Also, sometimes I will have to FOCUS to catch the feeling I'm thinking of, or break through some reluctance. Which isn't that hard when I'm in this frame of thought, because I notice the reluctance is just another suggestion, not something I have to follow. I feel more aware, and deliberate despite just following suggestions that seem like they're not unpleasent. 

Thank you for this, I resonate with this a lot. I have written an essay about this process, a while ago: Always go full autocomplete. One of its conclusions:

It cannot be trained by expecting perfection from the start. It's trained by going full autocomplete, and reflecting on the result, not by dreaming up what the result could be. Now I wrote all that, I have evidence that it works.

I suspect that after doing this enough times, you will internalize that generating words like this leads to them being published under your name and thus your filters will adapt and make this way of writing anxiety-inducing too.

Thanks for sharing!

There's also Ultraspeaking, which is a collection of exercises for learning to accomplish this but for spoken communication. If you are the sort of a person who finds it difficult to create conversation, you may attempt to simply start saying something and then allow your brain "autocomplete" the rest, via basically the same kind of process as detailed in this piece. I really feel like I've been able to level up some of my conversational abilities by using that technique.

For those who wonder how to edit and structure the content after you've autocompleted your way to completion, I suggest The Minto Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto (available eg. here: https://archive.org/details/mintopyramidprin00mint).

Beware local optima.

This approach is essentially a maximum-likelihood sample, and like normal sampling this can have issues where there are very good regions of state space "down in the tree", but no good way to get there.

While I can see the value in the suggestions you make, writing essays is not something I look forward to. I'd rather have a team of experts https://www.trustmypaper.com/ do the work for me if I could just give them a call. I know I'm not the only student to make use of resources like this.