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Jonathan Franzen

1 The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

2 Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money.

3 Never use the word “then” as a ­conjunction – we have “and” for this purpose. Substituting “then” is the lazy or tone-deaf writer’s non-solution to the problem of too many “ands” on the page.

4 Write in the third person unless a ­really distinctive first-person voice ­offers itself irresistibly.

5 When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it.

6 The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than “The Meta­morphosis”.

7 You see more sitting still than chasing after.

8 It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

9 Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

10 You have to love before you can be relentless.

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miercuri, incepind cu ora 20

la miercurea lejera

Poate ca v-ati intrebat de ce ultimele volume dintr-o serie (sa zicem Harry Potter) au mai multe pagini decit primele. De obicei, primul volum e o brosura de 100 de pagini, iar cel de-al cincilea cintareste trei kilograme. La americani si englezi, scriitorii si jurnalistii sint platiti la cuvint. Cu cit articolul/cartea are mai multe cuvinte, cu atit cistiga mai mult. Pentru jurnalistii cu statut de freelancer, acest sistem se dovedeste a fi foarte stimulativ. Ii determina sa acopere cit mai complet un subiect, iar pe editori sa taie cit mai mult. |ntrucit traiesc din scris si in ultimii cinci ani n-am mai calcat intr-o redactie decit in vizita simt nevoia unui alt sistem de retribuire. Nu ca pateul vegetal n-ar fi bun (chiar daca nu sint vegetarian) dar orice exces dauneaza. Acest sistem se bazeaza pe jocul de Scrabble, acel joc care le permite copiilor sa-i ridiculizeze pe adulti atunci cind reusesc sa formeze cuvintul “urechelnita”. Astfel, anumite litere ca J, H, K, Q, W, Z, mai putin intilnite in limba romana, folosite cu larghete, ar putea ridica sensibil valoarea articolelor. Cuvinte ca zarzare, quadrant, kilogram, xilofon quaker, kerosen, haltera, aflate vesnic intr-un con de umbra, ar ar capata, in sfirsit vizibilitate. Cred cu tarie ca, intr-o democratie adevarata, toate literele ar trebui sa aiba aceeasi importanta. De exemplu, cei mai multi romani nu folosesc deloc litera W. Mi-ar placea ca in orice articol pe care il voi scrie de acum inainte sa folosesc cuvintul wolfram, chiar daca fac cronica unui western sau recenzez o carte de poezie. Daca un autor reuseste ca intr-un articol sa foloseasca toate literele rare, va primi un bonus. Secretarul general de redactie va avea instalat un program special de calculat. In incheiere, pentru cei care se plictisesc acum intr-un bar, iata un exercitiu practic: puteti calcula cit as putea obtine pe acest articol, iata valorile literelor: A 1, G9, N1, U1, B9, H10, C1, I1, P2 1, X10, D2, J10, R1, Z10, E1, L1, S1 2 Jo F8, M4, T1, W- 10 lei. Cecul sa fie trimis pe adresa redactiei.

Richard Ford

1 Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer’s a good idea.
2 Don’t have children.
3 Don’t read your reviews.
4 Don’t write reviews. (Your judgment’s always tainted.)
5 Don’t have arguments with your wife in the morning, or late at night.
6 Don’t drink and write at the same time.
7 Don’t write letters to the editor. (No one cares.)
8 Don’t wish ill on your colleagues.
9 Try to think of others’ good luck as encouragement to yourself.
10 Don’t take any shit if you can ­possibly help it.

Helen Dunmore

1 Finish the day’s writing when you still want to continue.
2 Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don’t yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.
3 Read Keats’s letters.
4 Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away. It’s a nice feeling, and you don’t want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need.
5 Learn poems by heart.
6 Join professional organisations which advance the collective rights of authors.
7 A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.
8 If you fear that taking care of your children and household will damage your writing, think of JG Ballard.
9 Don’t worry about posterity – as Larkin (no sentimentalist) observed “What will survive of us is love”.

carti

1. Noapte buna, blindul meu print – Pierre Charras
2. Cintec de leagan – Chuck Palahniuk
3. Between Theater and Anthropology – Richard Schechner
4. Catedrala – Raymond Carver

filme

1. Dark Horse (Dagur Kari, 2005)
2. The Hurt Locker (Kathlin Biggelow, 2009)
3. Tokyo! (Gondry, Joon ho-Bong, Leos Carax, 2008)
4. I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron, 2006)
5. Tout Une Vie (Lelouch, 1974)
6. The Man Who Stare at Goats (Grant Heslow, 2009)
7. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
8. Sin Nombre (Cary Fukunaga, 2009)
9. You The Living (Du Levande) (Roy Andersson, 2007)
10. The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006)
11. Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax, 1986)
12. Age of Consent (Michael Powell, 1969)
13. Drumul Pasarilor (Klara Trencsenyi & Vlad Naumescu, 2009) - doc
14. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldritch, 1967)
15. Aliosa (Meelis Muhu, 2008) – doc
16 Faces (Cassavetes)
17. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982)
18. Crocodile (Kim Ki-duk, 1996)
19. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, 2009)

o parte din weekend mi-am petrecut-o la standul povestirilor fara filtru de la MTR.
vreme cam morocanoasa, aglomeratie (duminica) destui cunoscuti.
dintotdeauna mi-a placut ideea de a sta in spatele unei tejghele. linga mine se vindeau jucarii, hirtie manuala, turta dulce si, desigur, martisoare.
e misto sa ai discutii de “taraba” cu ceilalti despre cum le-am mers ziua, ce s-a dat mai bine si tot asa.
miercuri la ora 7 va fi lansarea oficiala a proiectului in ceainaria ramayana.
pe linga (poate) niste lecturi rapide, o parte dintre scriitorii prezenti cu proze se vor folosi, in functie de talent si de pricepere, de instrumente muzicale, asa ca va fi si ceva muzica la plic.