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kickwriting

noun

Etymology

From kick + writing. Coined by Jack Kerouac in a letter to Neal Cassady, describing Cassady's writing style.

  1. derived from wrītan — “to scratch, carve, write”
  2. inherited from wrītende
  3. inherited from writinge
  4. compounded as kickwriting — “kick + writing”

Definitions

  1. A frenzied, first-person style of writing.

    • You must and will go on at all costs including comfort & health & kicks; but keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.
    • A rapid typist, Kerouac hit on the idea of typing nonstop to get the 'kickwriting' momentum he wanted.
    • ... many experimental contemporaries—an unplotted, visionary, kickwriting syntax.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for kickwriting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA