Writing Habits: Tom Robbins doesn’t outline, rewrites passages 40 times

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According to one of Tom’s friends, the author of Jitterbug Perfume rewrote passages up to 40 times:

When he was writing Jitterbug Perfume he’d read me passages out loud to see how it sounded, then go back and write it again. I’ve never met a writer who spent more time polishing his metaphors.

Sometimes Tom will spend an entire day perfecting ONE sentence.

When you read a Tom
Robbins book, you are experiencing the words not only
in the exact order that he wrote them but almost in
the exact order that h