Prolific Writing vs Excessive Thinking

Does thinking too much become an obstacle in writing?  I have been trying to find out the answer without success.  But, some questions arise in mind like :

1.  What is the case with prolific writers?  Do they avoid too much thinking and focus their minds only on writing?  If yes, how do they get ideas for their writings?  Perhaps ideas occur to creative thinkers only without exercising any exertion on their brains.


2.  If they think too much, how come that they manage to write too much to be labelled as prolific writers?  Is too excessive thinking (I don't say deep thinking.  There is certainly a difference.) a common factor among the prolific writers?


3.  Can every excessive thinker become a prolific writer in case he has a flair for writing?


If yes is the answer to each of the above questions, then I should have been a prolific writer because I seriously think excessively and deeply about everything and I also have a flair for writing.  But, unfortunately, whenever I get down to writing something I lose my concentration and feel as if all the appropriate words and phrases start abandoning me.


I don't know if all or most of the writers experience the same state of mind or the so called 'writer's block' like I am having these days.


What I have noticed is that a certain location, weather and ambiance is sometimes very much motivating for me and very strongly pushes me towards initiating some writing of my interest.  And, when I make up my mind to do so, a strange, inexplicable feeling overwhelms me raising a huge wall of lethargy, procrastination and swinging mood.

Most of my friends know that I battled with severe type of suicidal depression, all alone and overcame it without even consulting a doctor or a psychiatrist and deliberately avoided to take any medication.  Yet, I don't feel any hesitation or shame in confessing that I have lamentably failed to devastate the huge obstacle of the 'writer's block'.  I'm rather so embarrassed with myself for not being able to achieve my targets of writing.


Anyway, being an obdurate positive thinker, I'm still struggling and battling with this menace that has pushed me back too far that I feel every day is a new day of restarting the pursuit of my writing goals from where I left the previous day.  No previous day shows that I had moved even a single step ahead.


So, I daily start my day from the same zero point and find myself, at the end of the day, where I began my 100 metre dash.


Whatever opinion you might have gathered about me by now, you cannot deny that in spite of admitting some of my very personal weaknesses that usually people despise to share with others, I have succeeded in composing this post.


And, I do admit without bringing forth the shield of my ego, that this piece of agonizing truth is not the outcome of any excessive or deep thinking.  In reality, I did not even have an idea about what I was going to write about that proves that prolific writers do not think too much.  They rather concentrate and bend every effort to write more and more and more.


May be one day I could also do that.