Method to my madness

I have not written and in depth article since probably senior year of high school. So, when I sat down with my notes and transcription from the phone interview I was at a loss at where to go. I had so many ideas in my head when I was doing the interview and I did get a lot of great info from my main source but that was part of the problem; I had so much I didn't know which direction to take. And unfortunately I think that shows in my article. But I did it and my method was quite scattered. I sat down with all my sheets of paper and just wrote what I wanted first- I literally just scribbled it all down by hand. Then I actually read it. Of course it was not perfect and so then I transferred it to a word document and went to work editing it for grammatical errors. All the while I was listening to the string quartet's performance of Incubus songs (I find that when I write I cannot listen to music with words because I am to distracted and often find my work littered with words from the songs- so that's a no go- but I also cannot sit in silence because I find that there is no such thing as silence and every little noise turns my head). So violins humming and keyboard clicking I wrote for about an hour, changing and adding, deleting and undoing. Finally I thought I had something that would suffice. The last part of my process was to read the article out loud to make sure that the flow was at least manageable.
I'm not convinced this is my best work and i struggled a lot but I really enjoyed dissecting my process because I do see some flaws that I need to and want to adjust for future projects.