Don’t think that you should be able to do an article all in one go, in fact doing drafts will ensure that you are doing your best work.
I can often tell when people just bang out an article because it lacks good editing. When you draft articles it gives you time to play around with the article and improve it. I often move paragraphs around and reorder sentences when doing a final draft to make sure that the article flows better. That could mean moving points that are similar into one paragraph s...