Kickwriting

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.

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.

To master this "kickwriting" style, Kerouac taped together 12-foot-long pieces of drawing paper, creating a continuous roll for his typewriter.