Later you can get them in more concise and elegant form. Later you can push and polish your ideas into shape, perhaps even deleting all of them and starting over, but it's a lot easier to improve your ideas once you see them in front of you, than it is to do the job in your head. On paper one word leads to another, in your head one word often blocks another. Each of us writes with a distinctive flavor and voice. Write from the heart.
Some stylists advise writers to place themselves in the background.
They contend, with some justification, that writing and talking are two separate modes of communication. A speaker, for example, has a rapport with listeners and takes into account what they already know. Formal writing and putting yourself in the background will work for many of you. It is absolutely required if you are writing for the Yale Law Review or The New England Journal of Medicine . Voice is the character and passion of the writer revealed.