Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter.If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting thought,the thought will die.If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share if with world in raw form,no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and thencriticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.

请问 capture the fleeting thought与 learn to create first 相矛盾吗? capture the fleeting thought不就是 create 吗?

“capture the fleeting thought”与 “learn to create first ”并不矛盾。“抓住稍纵即逝的想法”就是运用“创造性思维”。这点没有错。

理解重点在于：该文提出的论点是：要首先把想法记录下来，不要急于修改语法，也不要在修改之前就把你写的文章与人分享。所以才建议“先创作，而后批判”，先把文章写出来，再用批判性思维进行修改成形。