04-26-2003, 05:28 PM | #1 |
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Are you a swooper or basher?
In one passage from Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut talks about how writers fundamentally take one of two approaches, and can be described as either "swoopers" or "bashers". Swoopers write at a very fast pace, producing a lot of words quickly, and then go through the whole piece afterwards for careful revision. Bashers write slowly, perfecting each sentence or paragraph as they go along.
I am undoubtedly a basher. I unfortunately hit writer's block very often, and I produce very little (and VERY slowly), but I refine every paragraph to my liking before I move on to the next one. It's just my style, in a way - I'm admittedly not much of a planner or outliner. Is anyone else like this? From what I've read in other threads, it seems like we have a lot of writers on both ends of the spectrum on this forum.
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