Stéphanie Klebetsanis

Une amie et moi nous faisons un petit week-end écriture. Je n’ai aucune idée de ce que ça va donner, mais nous savons toutes les deux que nous allons nous inspirer. Elle doit travailler sur une pièce de théâtre et moi sur mon histoire ou sur mon recueil de mini textes. Peut-être que le fait [...]

I was lying on the grass in Primrose Hill and wanted the inspiration to come.
I was sitting in a Nero coffee shop in Camden and wanted the inspiration to come.
I was sitting in a coffee shop having breakfast in Notting Hill, admiring the view, and the inspiration came.
What can we do when we don’t feel [...]

I went to London last week. The only purpose of that trip was to write, and I’m very happy I did it, even if I didn’t write as much as I wanted to. Sometimes life gets in the way.
It was very interesting to have a few days free and to know I’d only do a [...]

Hannah Friedman, a Yale grad student who just finished writing her first book Everything Sucks (correct me if I’m wrong), answered a few questions about writing on her blog.
I wouldn’t consider myself an author (yet?), but I will definitely follow her advice.

Je viens de finir Un secret, de Philippe Grimbert. Une histoire courte, une écriture simple, précise, efficace autant que touchante. Les thèmes de l’holocauste, des secrets de famille et d’un frère pas si irréel que ça.
Je vous le conseille.

I often imagine that books pick readers, not the othe way around. I was at the bookstore the other day, and I saw The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, on the shelf in front of me. Just like that, it caught my eye. So I brought it home and started reading it. I’m not sure a [...]

Je n’ai vraiment plus envie de me censurer. J’ai envie d’éparpiller un peu partout les mots qui sortent de mon esprit, de ma bouche, mais aussi ceux qui entrent par mes oreilles et par ma peau.
Hier, sur mon blog personnel, j’ai publié un tout petit texte qui m’est venu au détour d’une rue, en attendant [...]

I often discover new authors through friends, but also through celebrities. One of my favorite books, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, has been “given” to me by the late Brandon Lee.
Now it’s time for Tim Roth and his wife to make me read Cormac McCarthy. They named their kids after their two favorite authors. [...]

I found a title for my story (or is it the title that found me?). Like the name of my characters, it is unlikely to change. It makes the story more real. I finally feel those words will exist outside of my head. I’m just a little scared of what shouldn’t been changed. I’m afraid [...]

I just booked my flights to London. I’m going to England for a few days in June to do a writing retreat. I don’t think I’ll spend a lot of time with people, I’ll mostly be by myself, writing, reading, listening to what the city has to say and telling a few secrets too.
I’m looking [...]

Selon le magazine Femina de cette semaine, le nouveau roman d’Haruki Murakami, Autoportrait de l’auteur en coureur de fond, donne envie d’écrire.
L’avez-vous lu?
Un roman qui donne envie d’écrire, ça donne envie de le lire…

Je me suis réveillée ce matin avec La Quête, de Jacques Brel, dans la tête. Elle devrait faire partie de mon histoire, d’une manière ou d’une autre.
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A very good friend of mine is willing to turn my story into a play when I finish it! The more I think about it, the more I see it as the thing to do. We’ll see what happens during the summer.

A friend of mine told me I should put a time limit on my story in order to structure things and to motivate myself. I decided I’ll try to finish it by the end of the summer.
Do you think also put a time limit in your writing?