Nous sommes seuls, nous nous sentons incompris, nous avons peur, nous ne savons pas quoi faire, ni comment le dire. nous l'avouons, nous le cachons, nous le refoulons aux oubliettes de notre conscience, nous nous frappons les côtes et nous avançons, puisque tous les autres font pareil. nous avançons, avec ce que nous avons, avec ce que nous savo

Let's be clear : while the message of stories and even our intention as writers are most of the time noble and sincere, the « craft » is mainly about trickery, cheat, duplicity. and it's fun ! for instance, when the story begins the goal of your character is not to go forwards to the story's climax. this is your need, at least if you know the end

In a movie, the revelation of the backstory can be mind blowing or a miserable burden in the telling : how much, when, what for, from whose point of view, at what progressing rythm (chinatown) or unique intensity (runaway jury, psycho) is the ultimate identity and vision of the writer. to some extent, the mastery of backstory is the central crossro

Every writer experiences to some extent that we are strangers to ourselves. good writing feels like going back home, a home we didn't know but still, recognize. it gets familiar as we discover it.so why is it so scary sometimes to dive into the realm of our own treasure ?it could be easy to blame it on education, as it is commonly admitted. blame i

If you are an artist, chances are you are a perfectionnist, an obsessed soul always in search of gold. well, i am. so let's celebrate together a simple truth : we'll never get a hundred per cent satisfied. nothing we'll ever write will meet all of our expectations. some might, a few lines and pages may pass the cut, and even bear the test of time.

La vie est une perpétuelle recherche d'équilibre. sans cesse centrer la balance de notre vie. notre vie intérieure, la moins équilibrée, la plus partiale par sa nature essentiellement subjective, notre vie extérieure telle que les autres, dans leur infinité de critères la perçoivent. et ce magnifique espace de frottement entre les deux, l'

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à me rejoindre sur mon nouveau site onecoffeeonescript.com ! j'aimais bien le fouillis chaleureux de ce blog, qui restera en ligne, mais j'ai eu envie d'offrir aux auteurs et passionnés de cinéma et d'histoires un espace plus convivial et moderne. en plus de mes contributions, l'esprit de ce nouvel espace se veut

There, in l.a., an enthousiast team led by karen gilmore and joshua dos santos, passionate about movies and screenwriting, and runninng this delicious website reel artsy, dedicated to "quirky, awkward, offbeat indie films." twitter and the passion for movies were the key to connect. so i thought i could indeed be part of this positive energy, while

Everyone insists on how important a pitch is. but as for myself, i think every writer needs four different and necessary pitches. first is the install pitch, the initial appeal of a conflicting contrast, a fresh situation around someone in relation with three essential entities : us, his world, and a vital necessity. this pitch is all about strong

Tiens c'est vendredi, et pour tout dire, j'avais la plume paresseuse. mais finalement je vais surfer sur le soleil radieux qui baigne le jardin et dont les rayons pointent vers le pc dans un sous entendu qui en dit long. c'est entre le soleil et moi et il a gagné. aujourdhui c'est jour de faire la peau à l'incommensurable amoncellement d'idées r