back when I was doing my masters' I found it very hard to begin or to put anything on the page. but it's also very easy for me to infodump on my topics, for hours if allowed.
so a girlfriend from college helped me in this way: she offered herself as an attentive listener, and I recorded myself explaining the whole concept, proposal, literature I had read etc. to her. Then the contract was, I would transcribe the entire audio as-is onto the text, no editing. only then I was allowed to format, reorganise, add references etc.
less than a hour of talking gave me the whole skeleton for my thesis, breaking the blank page paralysis and letting me concentrate on the experiment itself.
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