Proposal writer's block

I have been banging my head against a proposal for the last week. I hate that I can't write fluidly about what I want to do!

It is a 3-pager for a paper relating to the financial crisis: I want to turn my cost-of-fraud work to the financial crisis. I am having a hard time translating that fuzzy, hand-waving gut sense that this is a really productive path to walk down to a concrete proposal. I think in part because I don't understand the market for CDS and CDOs well enough. Well, that and generalized anxiety over producing a document that will be judged....