Craft

J'ai souvent envie d'être capable d'exprimer des trucs par autre chose que des mots, de sauter partout et que çe soit un peu plus ordonné ou du moins beau que moi qui a simplement l'air d'avoir une crise hystérique. De jouer du piano, du violon, ou même simplement être capable à nouveau de souffler correctement dans une flûte( sachez que c'est loin d'être aussi simple qu'il n'y paraît)

Je me dis souvent qu l'écriture est beaucoup moins spectaculaire que biens des arts. En même temps, elle a la santé robuste.

je replace Ursula Le Guin

Writing is my craft. I honor it deeply. To have a craft, to be able to work at it, is to be honored by it.

Naël

C'est la saison parfaite pour être quétaine et l'assumer.

Et pour composer une méga wish list
Et réécouter home alone un et deux(Je crois que je vais essayer d'en faire une tradition)
Et dépenser sans se culpabiliser puisque c'est pour les autres
Et rêver à tout ce qu'on va pouvoir faire de non-académique durant le congé des fêtes(De cusiner des tonnes de gâteaux à passer des heures devants les jeux vidéos, en passant par les trois films du seigneur des anneaux, un à la suite de l'autre*dum, dum dum*)
Et aussi pour se sentir un peu heureux du monde, comme on le peut. Pour moi aujourd'hui ça vient du siter personnel de l'écrivaine Ursula K. Le Guin.

Who helped/hindered you in your early career?
My parents never encouraged me in the sense of making a fuss about what I wrote or praising my determination to write. They encouraged me greatly in the sense that they believed that if you have a talent, you ought to work hard at it. When I was getting near college age, my father talked with me about getting a 'salable skill' — learning a trade
that I could live on. Because most writers don't earn enough from writing to buy catfood, this was wise advice. I loved languages, so I went into French and Italian literature in college, and went on for higher degrees that would qualify me to teach. Then when I got married, my husband never questioned my right to write. This is fairly
rare, especially in husbands. My advice to young writers is, if you can't
marry money, at least don't marry envy. [Bien dit!] When I was
young, the few older writers I knew were encouraging; and the writers who are my friends now are generous people with a strong sense of community. I keep away from writers who think art is a competition for fame, money, prizes, etc. What matters is the work.

How do you feel about your life now? What would you change or wish had been different? I love living almost as well as I love writing. It was tough trying to keep writing while bringing up three kids, but my husband was totally
in it with me, and so it worked out fine. Le Guins' Rule: One person cannot do two fulltime jobs, but two persons can do
three fulltime jobs — if they honestly share the work.
The idea that you need an ivory tower to write in, that if
you have babies you can't have books, that artists are somehow exempt from the dirty work of life — rubbish.

Do you have a writing philosophy?
I guess it is: Write. Revise. If possible, publish. Writing is my craft. I honor it deeply. To have a craft, to be able to work at it, is to be honored by it.

Do you revise many times?
As many times as necessary. With one story or novel, this may be five false starts and six or eight or ten full rewrites, beginning to end. With the next, it may mean just going back through it and over it fiddling details until I think it's as good as I can get it. Rewriting is as hard as composition is — that is, very hard work. But revising — fiddling and polishing — that's gravy — I love it. I could do it forever. And the computer has made it such a breeze. (Once I learned how to keep the computer itself from "correcting" my grammar, that is. Hey, butt out, Bill Gates, this is MY syntax.)