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The author writes with a quill while viewing his website on a screen, smoking a pipe | The author writes with a quill while viewing his website on a screen, smoking a pipe

I've just spent two full months, almost daily, preparing my site laurentchani.com. I started by opening an account with OVH and using WordPress.org, but I quickly realized that I had to "get my hands dirty…

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Author's Writing Process: Step One

Writer Laurent Chani thinks deeply, holding a quill in his pipe while staring at his paper | Author Laurent Chani thinks deeply, holding a quill in his pipe while staring at his paper

My writing process is based on a three-step approach. In this post, I'll introduce you to the first step. This is the raw writing, where the creativity of the project is expressed. I visualize the scene and the characters' dialogue. I adopt the…

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Free Will versus Inevitability

Laurent Chani, seated at his desk with a quill in hand, gazes thoughtfully at a series of translucent bubbles rising into the air as a metaphor for imagination | Laurent Chani, seated at his desk with a quill in hand, gazes thoughtfully at a series of translucent bubbles rising into the air as a metaphor for imagination

Free will was one of the starting points of my writing project. It was accompanied by the desire to explore what humanity might become in the near future, which, however, I will not experience in my lifetime. Certainly, the subject…

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AI and its staging inconsistencies

The author, perplexed before his cigar-smoking reflection, sees in the mirror symbolic figures, including Einstein and other thinkers, evoking intellectual reflection and scientific legacy

In my previous article, titled "The Author Throws Nothing Away," I looked for a visual concept to illustrate the dilemma between slimming down a text or, on the contrary, fleshing it out. The idea quickly came to me to stage...

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An empty circular assembly hall, with a glass floor revealing an ocean with a shark and corals below, under a round ceiling opening to the sky
Excerpt: The conference room
Alternative text: A science fiction writer, dressed in a dark suit and smoking a pipe, writes with an old-fashioned quill in front of a large hourglass spilling sand onto his papers, symbolizing the passing of time.
The inevitable destiny
Laurent Chani swimming breaststroke with intensity, wearing a striped swimsuit and swimming goggles, a pipe in his mouth | Laurent Chani swimming breaststroke with intensity, wearing a striped swimsuit and swimming goggles, a pipe in his mouth
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