For Observer writers, this speed and professionalism was a godsend.
The writer then speeds up to date in orally touching second and rounding third base, which is now "going all the way," and slides home with a surprise twist of the old sex-as-baseball metaphor: "Home plate is being introduced by name".
But the initial, heedless reactions to Ms. Sandberg's book spoke to a larger problem, namely the pressures that the twenty-four/seven hamster-wheel pace of the contemporary media puts on writers: to speed up rather than to slow down, to shoot first and ask questions later, to create drama, and, sometimes, to operate from a place of bad faith and fixed biases.
Mr. De Palma soars off into space toward the same end, with a group of writers including Graham Yost of "Speed" and writers with producers' credits like Ted Tally ("Silence of the Lambs") and David Goyer ("Blade"), although much of the picture feels as if it came from the director.
With this the Navy claims a writer's maximum speed can be increed from 149 words to 180.
Sartre is probably a bad advertisement for the effect of amphetamines as an aid to composition, but he is by no means the only example of a writer who used speed to help him work.
My father's way of introducing him was not as a magical writer with such speed — that had been Father's role — instead he brought him in as a furry, silky animal: you've got to pat the top of his head.
Fortunately, I had scheduled a writing retreat during National Novel Writing Month with my good friend, ace detective novelist and speed writer Toby Neal.
Writer audited a speed-painting course he teaches, under the auspices of the Learning Annex.
Clancy, Menand wrote, had risen to the first rank of American thriller writers with dizzying speed.
He showed writer a 21-speed Raleigh mountain bike with the words "Police Bike" on it.
