Waching daily May 27 2018

Hey!

I hope you're well and you had a good week!

Before starting this video,

there are a few things I want to talkt to you about.

First, you noticed that I didn't upload thursday

I apologize, but it was absolutly not possible

for me to film, edit, etc.

I warned you that might happen

but I'm sorry for those who were waiting fervently

their video on thursday evening.

Second, I asked you in my last video

if you would be interested

a kind of Q&A on my channel.

I already received some questions in the comments

so I decided to do a Q&A.

I wanted to do one anyway.

So feel free to send me

on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

or in the comments

all your question, if we know eachother or not,

personal questions, questions about the channel,

about one particular video, funny questions,

serious questions...

Send it all to me and when I judge that

I have enough questions, I'll make a video.

Without further ado, let's start with today's video.

Today's video, I probably called it

as it's the idea I had

"Diary of a novel"

"Part 1. The genesis"

Why ? I think with everything I said in my videos lately

plus the title which is quite explicit,

you may have understood that

I'm starting to write.

I decided to motivate me

to write a book, a novel to be exact.

I'm so scared and so exited at the same time

because it's something I want to do for a long time

and for some reasons I'm not doing anything.

But in those reasons,

the biggest one is that I don't know where to start

You don't learn at school the steps

to write a book

and I know it helped me to watch YouTube videos

especially Andrea's videos,

hi Andrea!

And Jay's videos as well

because both of them wrote books

and shared their experiences in videos.

So if it helped me, maybe it can help some of you

who want to push themselves to do it

but don't know where to start.

I'm going to share my experience during this process

So there won't be any regularity for this video,

I'll do those when I feel I have enough new

things and something new to say

I'll film videos at this moment

If there is nothing to say,

I won't spend 10 minutes like this

Today, we are going to talk about the genesis of a novel,

so for me, how I had the idea

and how I'm working with it today.

The first thing, as basic as it seems,

is the first idea.

To write something,

unless it's an order, and it's your job,

and you probably don't need to watch this video,

but unless it's an order, if you want to write a book

you have to have the first idea

even if you don't know all of the details yet,

just a draft, or as I call it an idea of an idea

it's something vague but

something that you are intrested in and you want to develop

and build something around it.

I had my first idea

more than a year ago, in march 2017 I guess

I had wrote down a few things

and did nothing about it since

because I just wasn't ready do do something

So I let it mature and grow

until it's ready to hatch and I'm ready to work with it.

This first idea can come from anything and anywhere

It depends on the type of book you want to write:

novel, short stores, fiction, poetry,

biography, autobiography...

There is a million of possibilities

and you can get inspired by averything.

My idea came from

different situations I was living

and experimenting at the time

and that's how it came to me.

I would call the second thing "the trigger"

As I said, I had my idea a year ago

and I never worked on it since

so why I'm starting to work on it today, more than a year after?

You may have noticed it and I talked about it,

but I wanted to start writing again

I started to write poems again, I wanted to write

blog articles...

My creativity and my will to write had a come back

and a few weeks ago, I attended a workshop

organised by an association called "Les Internettes"

a workshop on writing scenarios.

At first, I was going without any project to work on,

without an idea for a script or anything

I just wanted to see how to write fiction

mostly for audio-visual

because it's something I may do on my channel in the future

so I was thinking it might be interesting.

The day was really interesting,

the girls I follow the workshop with were so cool,

a big hello to you if you ever see this video,

and in the four speakers that day,

two of them were working for a publisher

and at some point we had to divide ourselves in small groups

I went instinctively toward them

more than scenarists for television or films.

And in my group, I went back on my old idea

which was in my drafts in my mailbox

I didn't work on it or even just

think about it since I had it

I explained it to Emilie and the girls in my group

and they loved it!

They asked me a lot of questions about it,

"what about your character? And why this?

It could be so good, and maybe you should work on this part..."

They gave me a lot of ideas

and their enthousiasm was communicative

When I left, my brain was on fire with all of those ideas

and all of the motivation they gave me

I wanted just to take my pen and start writing

which would have been a mistake.

So I had the "trigger" at that moment,

I said to myself "I have a good idea

and I think I'm ready to

make all the efforts to at least

work on it. If I don't write it, that's ok,

but at least work on it and se what I can do with it.

So I left more motivated than ever!

I'd call the third step "the start-up".

You can't go straight to the writing.

It's quite impossible

To write a novel, you need characters, adventures,

an environment,

if you write fantasy

you have to creat a whole world around it...

You can't really improvise

or develop a story right away.

You have to take the time to grow it up,

to ask yourself all the questions

to ask yourself all the questions you can

So asking yourself about

your character's past, his future,

what does he want, what is his goal

what's his concious and inconcious goals

(See Emilie, I remember what you said)

who are his friends, what's his biography,

what's gonna happen to him, how

is he gonna reach his goals,

or not reaching them...

I think you have to know

everything about it

even if everything doesn't end in the story,

in the writing,

but I think it's really important to answer for yourself

all the questions and to be clear

about what you want to write.

This question step isn't always easy

because nobody has the answer.

There is no good or bad answer,

you have to invent all of the answers

There is not one way to do it.

For one first idea,

if you ask four writers to write it,

you'll have four differents stories

When I first talk about my idea to my group,

the girls first thought about a thriller

which could be great

but I decided to take an other path.

So there is no good answer,

and it can be a little difficult

when you are a little academic

or just not very confident.

Beside that, I think you have to keep the door open,

every question is good to ask,

all of the hypotheses are worth the try

even if you don't choose them in the end

I'm far today from the idea I first had.

They are related, of course,

but it's not that simple and I'm still today

in that question step

and it's really cool, because at the same time

I'm creating, and I'm working on my principal character

so at the same time I'm creating him

but I feel like I'm meeting him

so it's a little weird.

I think somehow he always have been inside of me

because I'm creating him from

some things I experienced

and internalized at some levels.

So it's very interesting, this feeling of knowing him

and descovering him completely

So this is where I am now,

I'm still working on my questions.

I'm lucky to have Emilie,

I can send emails to her

she is guiding me, asking me other questions

If I hade one advice for you, it would be to have

someone, even if he/she's not working in publishing,

but at least interested in literature,

I think it's important because

if this person likes reading, she can ask you questions

that she asks herself when she reads

So I think it's important to have someone who is into reading,

someone kind

not someone who is gonna tell you what to do

but who's gonna try to help you open you mind

and encourage you, it's very important.

I'm lucky that Emilie offerd me

to follow me in this adventure

But you can ask your mum, a friend, a teacher,

anyone, I think it's very important

to suround yourself with someone

you can talk to,

and find some echo to your questions

like a miror effect or something.

So I'm really excited to start the writing part

but I'm not there yet

and I know you can't skip the steps.

Few times back, skiping steps

made me start things and give up right away

because I had a lot of idea, and just wrote down

three things about my story and characters

and start writing

so I wrote an intro, it's probably nice to read

but how to develop a story through that

I think it's impossible.

If some of you succed that way, please tell me how!

So, I'm done with this video,

I hope you enjoyed it and found it interesting,

I think those videos will help me to keep track of my journey

and I hope it can help some of you to

start a project you like, even if it's not writing

I hope it can help you, interest you, motivate you

Also, don't be shy and ask me your questions for the Q&A,

regarding this video, other videos, all subjects on earth!

Feel free to ask for the Q&A.

Until then, I send you a lot of hugs,

I wish you a very good week and I'll see you thursday !

Bye !