@Jonn_Underwood Following up on @LitheOhm's suggestion about editing, there's an idea in writing (not everyone agrees with it, and it's called by many names) which I like to think of as "voyage out" and "voyage back" (I think Peter Elbow --yes, that's his real name-- coined it thus).

"Voyage out" is where you write. Just write, don't worry about consistency or style or even necessarily making a lot of sense. Just write everything you can about the subject/scene/person/whatever until you feel dry.

"Voyage back" is where you cut away what doesn't work, and edit down what does.

You take a machete (or sometimes a chainsaw) to the dense sprawling jungle that you wrote, and you hack it away and shape it until it's a lovely topiary.

Then you voyage out again.

This process gives you both unfettered creativity and total control, by not creating the desire to have both at once.