[mattmanser]

I just accept I'm a sprinter when it comes to coding, not a marathon runner. I spend 2 or 3 hours poking the code with a stick, proverbially speaking, reading it, maybe pruning crappy code, maybe faffing around, then bash out the actual code in an hour or two.

I believe what happens is that I form a mental map of the business process and a mental map of the code and then when I eventually come to write something, it just pours out.

Psychologically, it took me a long time to accept that only actually coding 2 or 3 hours a day is fine. For years I beat myself up for being 'lazy'.

EDIT: I mean, it's obviously different if you're just adding an extra column to an existing table or something (usually) trivial like that.