What is constipated writing?

Answer 1

Firstly, it is an ironic oxymoron, because were one constipated she would be unable to write anything.

But, we may assume only a certain degree of constipation is intended by the phrase, as a certain amount of writing is necessitated.

From that point the phrase means, one's writing is stilted. It could be haggard writing, without flow, yet still be a passage or passages of many words. Then it could be short, unexamined writing, that seems like a list arranged in paragraph form. Paragraph style lists are underrated, and one aught not to accept guff over such a list if it is intentional.

*If you are suffering from constipated writing, you should devise a means of behaviour modification. You could ask a trusted person who is close in proximity to hit you viciously, or have standing ready a car battery with a probe attached to each terminal that you may shock yourself with. Either mode of pain must be delivered immediately after you have committed constipated writing for the treatment to be effective.

As an example of not constipated writing is James Joyce's Ulysses. A prolific, often staccato, and schizophrenically varied novel. On the other hand, any of Woody Allen's novels read with a distinct rhythm, an unrelenting theme, at first interesting, quickly tiring and sickening, like diarrhea.

Here, the definition does little to delineate a definition of constipated writing, though I would argue the contrast has done much to elucidate that definition.