She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.
Source: On his wife Katharine S White, Onward and Upward in the Garden, Farrar, Straus & Giroux 79
-- E B White, (Jul 11 1899-1985), US humorist, essayist, novelist; His children's books have become classics, e.g., Charlotte's Web, 1952 and Stuart Little, 1945.