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Jan

Get to the Fucking Point

Whenever I think about writing the next great American novel, I always have titles pop into my head before plot. I don’t really know what that is, other than that I like clever titles. For a few years, the title that I have had in my head has been: Price Upon Request. Perhaps, Get to the Fucking Point wouldn’t be too bad.

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The movie The Usual Suspects started off with the title first, then the image from the poster and once they liked both of those then they got to work on the plot, characters etc.

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09

Jan

Why I Write by George Orwell

Orwell lists four “great motives for writing”: sheer egoism—the desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood (“It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive, and a strong one”)—aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and political purpose. “By nature — taking your “nature” to be the state you have attained when you are first adult “, he writes, “I am a person in whom the first three motives would outweigh the fourth.”

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06

Jan

Apple stores are the best

Unable to afford a computer, Ms. Jade, 25, began cadging time on a laptop at the Apple store in the SoHo section of Manhattan. Ms. Jade spent hours at a stretch standing in a discreet corner of the store, typing. Within a few months, she had written nearly 300 pages.

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