kickwriting

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

kickwriting (uncountable)

  1. (literature) A frenzied, first-person style of writing.
    • 1996, Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters, Selected letters, 1940-1956, →ISBN, page 242:
      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.
    • 2011, Ann Charters, On the Road (Introduction), →ISBN:
      A rapid typist, Kerouac hit on the idea of typing nonstop to get the 'kickwriting' momentum he wanted.
    • 2011, Zahn Pesh, Cat-Cup Clones: A Fictional Memoir, →ISBN, page v:
      ... many experimental contemporaries—an unplotted, visionary, kickwriting syntax.
    • 2012, Nick Tasler, The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play it Safe and Others Risk it All, →ISBN:
      Only by using his free-flow style of “kickwriting” did Kerouac believe he could capture the vibrancy of the man that inspired the book, his friend Neal Cassady.
    • 2016 September 16, Celia San Miguel, “22 Literary Tattoos That Book Lovers Will Appreciate”, in The Stir:
      To master this "kickwriting" style, Kerouac taped together 12-foot-long pieces of drawing paper, creating a continuous roll for his typewriter.