Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, an…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1998). Timequake, p.109, Penguin
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