Writing first draft

Normally I don't have any problem writing. I can easily write long letters and come up interesting stories. Writing an essay is a little harder. I really don't like doing research. I love learning and reading other things out there on different topics. Researching though it the hardest part of forming a paper. There is so much information on a lot of topics. Its hard to figure out when you read something if it is writing from a reliable source or not. When I graduated from high school in 1994 I had a really bad case of writers block. I could think of anything to write but I wanted to write a really good fiction story. I just didn't know where I was going to go with it or how I was going to do it. One day I was sitting down staring at my blank notebook listing to some music by the band Def Leppard and that was when I got a spark of an idea. I feel now listing to music while I think the story lines and ideas come to me when I get ready to write something even if it is a essay paper. I think everyone has their own ideas and ways to write things and I feel if you just write a whole page out on paper in ink without erasing things it is a start and a cure for the writers block.