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My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond to the energy that the story is making rather than having a big over plan. i think if you have a big over plan, the danger is that you might just take your plan and then you bore everybody. i always joke that it's like going on a date with index cards. you know, at 7:30 p.m. i should ask about her mother. you keep all the control to yourself but you are kind of insulting to the other person.

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My General Approach To Writing Fiction Is

George Saunders

My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond to the energy that the story is making rather than having a big over plan. i think if you have a big over plan, the danger is that you might just take your plan and then you bore everybody. i always joke that it's like going on a date with index cards. you know, at 7:30 p.m. i should ask about her mother. you keep all the control to yourself but you are kind of insulting to the other person.

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Scripts are a house of cards and you can't just reach in the middle and pull out the middle card because the house of cards will fall down. but at a certain point you almost have to allow that house of cards to get knocked down a few times because you need to make it sturdier. how many times do you hear, "no, that doesn't make sense," or "why would this happen?" that was a mistake. you shouldn't have those moments, because the moment you're knocked out of the story, then you're dead. and all you can go is moment to moment,or joke to joke. and that's gonna wear people out.

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Valentines day is being marketed as a date movie. i think its more of a first-date movie. if your date likes it, do not date that person again. and if you like it, there may not be a second date.

You see, suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, i guess you bore me too.

I keep on repeating something told to me by an american psychologist: "when you are making a joke about someone and you are the only one to laugh, it is not a joke. it is a joke only for yourself." if people are making a joke they have the right to laugh at me but i will ignore them. ignoring doesn't mean that you don't understand. you understand it so much that you don't want to react.

Top trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. whoever had the better horse won both the cards. you repeated this until someone had all the cards. so, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it.

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