A critical eye

I've been floundering with the next stage of writing my novel. I know what I want to say and how I want to say it, however, when I see it on the page it looks a little ordinary. I'm left thinking that perhaps I'm trying to make to large a leap with this next draft.

From all the accounts I've read about writing a novel, and there have been many, it is an iterative process. Perhaps I am trying to make too big a leap from the first brain dump / idea generation phase of the writing to the phase of writing a coherent draft.

Many advise to let yourself write badly; to just get it onto the page. I took that approach with my pre first draft and it looks like I need to take it again with my first draft.

Here I go.