author Archives - Valette Céline

Espèces d’auteurs festival

On Saturday March 18, 2023, I have been to le festival espèces d’auteurs organized by la Société des Gens de Lettres in Paris.

This one began with a conference: writing and living, business project, in a second time, a round table table about reviews.
In the room, only professionals. The contents of the two presentations were interesting and there was a debate, quick question and answers (speakers, authors).

Between the two speeches, different professionals (Association des Traducteurs Littéraires de France, Center National Book, Sofia etc.) answered my questions about a part of my projects and provided information on the specificity of copyright.

Au festival espèces d’auteurs, une photo de la salle la fin de la première conférence

Céline Valette dans le train. Quelques idées à noter. — Quelques idées à noter pendant le voyage dans le train.

Freedom to dream

I told you about fighting against the lack of inspiration. Here are some tips. Whenever I got stuck on an idea, I played music and drew. For example, I was making improvements to the stagecoach by representing it. This allowed me to give a certain originality to it. I listened to the training I had followed, I reviewed my notes. If nothing helped it meant that an element did not correspond to the writing of the book. This can happen if you control your characters too much. They have their own existence within the book. The story freezes when one or more characters act opposite to their personality.

This text is an extract of my masterclass

Learning-collaboration

Feuilles avec un texte écrit et enregistreur
Readers often ask questions related to our business. Each author has her own path and techniques. For my part, I often write my ideas on sheets or a notebook without lines. This allows me to move them more easily. On the other hand, when I write, the computer is my main tool. That said, I also sometimes use a recorder so as not to lose musical ideas that I use (or not) as needed. The photo I posted today corresponds to the project I’m working on. For this one I called on other professionals to finalize certain parts (enlargements, rereading translation, advice, asked actors their opinion to make a proposition and to play)

Signing meeting september 3rd

Couverture de livre

Dear readers,

Following the publication of my book “Fantastic L.A.” I am pleased to invite you to a signing meeting on Saturday September 3rd.

This event will take place at the bookshop Le Presse Papier in Thuir.

At this time, we will discuss together and I will answer your questions from 9am to 12pm.

See you soon !

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Thank you all.

Pictures from this event :

Photo d'une lectrice

Photo d'un lecteur.

Photo de d'une lectrice et d'un lecteur.

Changing your writing places

All authors have their writing habits. Some like to write quietly in their home, others in a park or any other place that inspires them. For my part, I like to write in my office and from time to time in another place. It’s like a kind of exercise that allows me to learn to adapt to different writing conditions. I sometimes go to a tea room where the decoration of objects fascinates me. Then, I need a little time to adapt to refocus. The type of writing is different from my office. I invite you to change your habits in writing in another places. Here are some photos.

Salon de thé - brocante "entre parenthèse" — Salon de thé – brocante “entre parenthèse”