I tend to use a "sprint" type writing strategy when getting my first draft down. Years ago I would obsess over sentences and paragraphs, and while I'd eventually make progress, the story was stiff, unchangeable, emotionless, and took much longer to complete. Now with the sprint approach, where I set a clock for X amount of time and just go nuts (I do jot down where I want to be by the end of that scene or chapter so I have a very loose direction I want to get to). The ideas are stronger but there are lots more, the directions I can go are endless, and there is more of "me" buried in there. The downside, the writing is crap. Half sentences, poor grammar, cliche dialogue, and thoughts scattered all over the place.

For instance if I set a 20 minute sprint. My 5th sentence may only make sense if I had my 125th sentence next to it. In other words, I am finding this is not much of a draft and more of a brain dump. Going back to edit is excruciating because I am all over the place. Between half thoughts, full solid thoughts and passages, scattered illogical dialogue, A great sentence here and a crap sentence there, it takes almost as much time to organize on an edit than my original way of writing when I would obsess up front rather than after the fact. It's as if i woke up one morning and realized I hadn't cleaned my living room in 3 years and I don't even know where to begin.

It is also like ok, first draft is done (even if I had it outlined) but I have no idea what I am trying to say.

Am I concerned about something that is actually common when writing a first draft? Anyone else write like this? If so, what is your resolution when attacking the 2nd, 3rd, 4th draft?