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The Sound of Excellence

After the all-night writing scene in ‘Jerry Maguire’ (1996)

Tucker Lieberman
2 min readMay 30, 2023
girl holds planet-looking helium balloons by the sea
Sea by Ajay kumar Singh from Pixabay

Write Like Jerry Maguire

OK. I hope it doesn’t take all night.

Begin.

I begin writing what they call writing. Not in the memo app. They want a mission statement. You know, give me suggestions, I am the robot of the future.

It was a dark and stormy night. I seized it.

How long would you like this to be?

AI doesn’t have a father and is no one’s son.

I’m remembering the simple pleasures of writing, how I became a robot.

(By the way, you’ll be expelled from law school for this.)

I heard sounds, the sound of excellence, performance on the field. I will protect you. If you are healthy or if you are injured.

With so many search requests, you forget what’s important. I wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote and I’m not even a writer. Neither are you anymore. I only quote the words…

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

Cult classic. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." Editor for Prism & Pen and Identity Current. tuckerlieberman.com

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