Spent an evening writing deliberately terrible poems and it unlocked…

Spent an evening writing deliberately terrible poems and it unlocked something I have been stuck on since January.

Not because any of them were secretly good. They were awful, reliably, on purpose. But an hour of it stopped me flinching, and the flinch was the actual problem. I had got to a point where I could not put down a line without immediately grading it, and you cannot write and mark at the same time.