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Cinq choses que vous devriez savoir sur les écrivains
C'est un article en anglais ici, signé Misty Massey.
Le voici :
1. We’re watching.
Characters in the most successful stories move and talk and behave in a believable way. So sure, we’re watching you. We’re looking at the way you walk, and the clothes you chose this morning and what’s in your cup. We’re interested in what kind of car you drive, your favorite color and whether you wanted to be a cowboy or an astronaut when you were a kid. We’re not trying to stalk you, really. Don’t run away. We’re just trying to get it all right.
2. We’re listening.
Not long ago I was sitting in a Starbucks waiting on a friend to arrive, and I couldn’t help overhearing a conversation between a young woman who was writing a novel, and the young man who was coaching her. She was starry-eyed, he was pretentious and together they were practically a comedy team. Not that they knew it. I kept my face deadpan and my head down, but I heard almost every word. It’s a great way to learn how to write dialogue, after all. Hearing the give and take, the breaths and pauses that happen in between, is vital. And sometimes I hear a sentence that’s so individual, so perfect, I rush to scribble it in my notebook, in case one of my characters might say something like that. If you’re ever reading along and you run across a familiar turn of phrase, don’t be surprised to find that a writer was listening to you.
3. We’re not talking about you.
With all that listening and watching, you might worry that our characters are based on real people…maybe even you yourself. Most likely not. With all the listening and watching we do, we still prefer to create our own characters. Just because the protag in the novel has brown hair and drives a Santa Fe doesn’t make her me. So relax…your soul isn’t stolen, nor is your secret identity revealed.
4. We occasionally wander in another world.
Sometimes in the middle of a conversation, the writer will seem to drift away. We don’t mean to be rude. We can’t help it – something pinged a thought, and sent us wandering into the world of our imagination. Writers become skillful at pretending to know what they missed in a real-life conversation, because we do this so often. It’s easier face to face than on the phone though…as my best friend and my sister could tell you. I’ve done it to them more than once, and felt terrible about it.
5. We’re not vampires.
Most of us have day jobs to pay the bills, and have to do our writing at night or on weekends. Time is a premium. I have to plan my time carefully, to make sure I’m not throwing it all away. Sometimes friends will call on the spur of the moment and invite me to some great event, and I have to turn them down because I’d already planned to spend the day with the keyboard. I’d love to go out to the mall or have tea, but if it’s between that and getting the writing done, the writing takes precedence. That’s just how it has to work. Do you want the next book or not?
Anyone want to add to the list?
Le voici :
1. We’re watching.
Characters in the most successful stories move and talk and behave in a believable way. So sure, we’re watching you. We’re looking at the way you walk, and the clothes you chose this morning and what’s in your cup. We’re interested in what kind of car you drive, your favorite color and whether you wanted to be a cowboy or an astronaut when you were a kid. We’re not trying to stalk you, really. Don’t run away. We’re just trying to get it all right.
2. We’re listening.
Not long ago I was sitting in a Starbucks waiting on a friend to arrive, and I couldn’t help overhearing a conversation between a young woman who was writing a novel, and the young man who was coaching her. She was starry-eyed, he was pretentious and together they were practically a comedy team. Not that they knew it. I kept my face deadpan and my head down, but I heard almost every word. It’s a great way to learn how to write dialogue, after all. Hearing the give and take, the breaths and pauses that happen in between, is vital. And sometimes I hear a sentence that’s so individual, so perfect, I rush to scribble it in my notebook, in case one of my characters might say something like that. If you’re ever reading along and you run across a familiar turn of phrase, don’t be surprised to find that a writer was listening to you.
3. We’re not talking about you.
With all that listening and watching, you might worry that our characters are based on real people…maybe even you yourself. Most likely not. With all the listening and watching we do, we still prefer to create our own characters. Just because the protag in the novel has brown hair and drives a Santa Fe doesn’t make her me. So relax…your soul isn’t stolen, nor is your secret identity revealed.
4. We occasionally wander in another world.
Sometimes in the middle of a conversation, the writer will seem to drift away. We don’t mean to be rude. We can’t help it – something pinged a thought, and sent us wandering into the world of our imagination. Writers become skillful at pretending to know what they missed in a real-life conversation, because we do this so often. It’s easier face to face than on the phone though…as my best friend and my sister could tell you. I’ve done it to them more than once, and felt terrible about it.
5. We’re not vampires.
Most of us have day jobs to pay the bills, and have to do our writing at night or on weekends. Time is a premium. I have to plan my time carefully, to make sure I’m not throwing it all away. Sometimes friends will call on the spur of the moment and invite me to some great event, and I have to turn them down because I’d already planned to spend the day with the keyboard. I’d love to go out to the mall or have tea, but if it’s between that and getting the writing done, the writing takes precedence. That’s just how it has to work. Do you want the next book or not?
Anyone want to add to the list?
Jérôme
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en fait c'est sans doute PIRE que ça, après avoir regardé et écouté, on continue à parler de ... NOUS3. We’re not talking about you.
With all that listening and watching, you might worry that our characters are based on real people…maybe even you yourself. Most likely not. With all the listening and watching we do, we still prefer to create our own characters. Just because the protag in the novel has brown hair and drives a Santa Fe doesn’t make her me. So relax…your soul isn’t stolen, nor is your secret identity revealed.

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Re: Cinq choses que vous devriez savoir sur les écrivains
So you won't ever sell a copy: les clients veulent des livres de vampires (voir autres fils).jerome a écrit : 5. We’re not vampires.


"If there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939."
Ca ne me parait pas être spécifique aux auteurs?4. We occasionally wander in another world.
Sometimes in the middle of a conversation, the writer will seem to drift away. We don’t mean to be rude. We can’t help it – something pinged a thought, and sent us wandering into the world of our imagination. Writers become skillful at pretending to know what they missed in a real-life conversation, because we do this so often. It’s easier face to face than on the phone though…as my best friend and my sister could tell you. I’ve done it to them more than once, and felt terrible about it.
Listen now. Whoever you are, with these eyes of yours that move themselves along this line of text; whoever, wherever, whenever. If you can read this sentence, this one fragile sentence, it means you're alive. (Jeff Noon - Falling out of cars)
Oui ça me parait pas spécifique aux auteurs... tous les hommes sont dotés de cette capacité qui est un mécanisme de survie face aux monologues ininterrompus de leur femmegutboy a écrit :Ca ne me parait pas être spécifique aux auteurs?4. We occasionally wander in another world.
Sometimes in the middle of a conversation, the writer will seem to drift away. We don’t mean to be rude. We can’t help it – something pinged a thought, and sent us wandering into the world of our imagination. Writers become skillful at pretending to know what they missed in a real-life conversation, because we do this so often. It’s easier face to face than on the phone though…as my best friend and my sister could tell you. I’ve done it to them more than once, and felt terrible about it.

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In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
la réciproque est vraie aussi pour les femmes sauf qu'elles sont suffisamment fines pour 1/ que les maris ne s'en rendent pas compte 2/ qu'ils continuent de se bercer d'illusion sur leurs capacités d'orateurVinze a écrit : Oui ça me parait pas spécifique aux auteurs... tous les hommes sont dotés de cette capacité qui est un mécanisme de survie face aux monologues ininterrompus de leur femme

Malheureusement, les progrès de la science sont souvent comme une hache dans les mains d’un criminel pathologique - Albert Einstein
Nicholas NicklebyCharles Dickens a écrit :L’auteur a tiré une grande satisfaction et s’est beaucoup amusé, pendant la publication de cet ouvrage, d’apprendre de la bouche de ses amis de la campagne – ainsi que qu’au travers de déclarations aussi variées qu’absurdes de feuilles de chou provinciales – que plus d’un directeur d’école du Yorkshire s’est vanté d’être le M. Squeers original. L’un de ces estimables gentlemen, du moins se considère-t-il comme tel, a été jusqu’à consulter les autorités judiciaires afin de s’assurer qu’il y avait matière à des poursuites en diffamation ; un autre a songé sérieusement à voyager jusqu’à Londres, dans le but de venir casser la figure de son diffamateur ; un troisième se souvient parfaitement qu’en janvier de l’année dernière, il a été entrepris par deux messieurs dont l’un s’entendit à lui tirer les vers du nez tandis que l’autre mémorisait ses traits ; et, bien que M. Squeers n’ait qu’un œil, que lui en posséda deux, et que le dessin publié ne lui ressembla pas (à quoi il ressemble, d’ailleurs, nous l’ignorons) pour tout le reste, lui, ses amis et ses voisins surent d’emblée à quoi s’en tenir – le personnage ayant avec lui des affinités si frappantes.
Quand bien même l’Auteur ne peut que se réjouir d’un si grand compliment déposé à ses pieds, il ose suggérer que ces réclamations pourraient être dues au fait que M. Squeers est un archétype, et non pas un individu en particulier. Lorsque l’hypocrisie, l’ignorance et la cupidité brutale sont le lot d’une certaine catégorie d’hommes, et qu’on décrit quelqu’un selon ces caractéristiques, ses collègues s’y reconnaîtront, et chacun en tirera l’idée fausse de ce qu’on parle de lui.
Préface à l'édition originale (le roman est d'abord paru en feuilleton)
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Sauf quand l'enfant, à qui on ne la fait pas, relève d'un air innocent : "Caisse t'as, maman ? T'as l'air ailleurs ?"Lhisbei a écrit : la réciproque est vraie aussi pour les femmes sauf qu'elles sont suffisamment fines pour 1/ que les maris ne s'en rendent pas compte 2/ qu'ils continuent de se bercer d'illusion sur leurs capacités d'orateur
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