I don't think there is any way around the "writing to think" and the "writing for an audience" workflows. The process can be shortcutted by reducing quality, as all things...but quality demands a commensurate amount of resource. There could be ways to share the work or use other tools to help with some of the work, but I think all the steps have to be there. matrix 
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'Writing to think' and 'writing for audience' seem to be two of those processes that cannot be cut short. matrix
See the Role of the Observer and Computational Irreducibility
> […], we arrogantly assume our analytical methods (math, intuition, etc.) can shortcut the system’s inherent computational processes. This works in cases like celestial mechanics, but fails in others—like molecular dynamics.
See also Can AI Solve Science?, section "Science as Narrative". page , matrix
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