Author Information

Discover an overview of various publications which gravitate around the activity of the author and his creative universeThese texts, sometimes brief, sometimes more developed, offer additional lighting on his literary journey. They reveal moments of reflection, anecdotes or fragments ofinspiration that mark his work. Each publication opens a window on his daily life as a writer and on the development of his projects. The reader is thus invited to follow step by step theevolution of an approach in perpetual construction.
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Build an author website
Read more: Construire un site internet auteurI'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 with IT. That wasn't my initial goal: I wanted to have...
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Author's Writing Process: Step One
Read more: Processus d’écriture de l’auteur : Première étapeMy 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 posture of a spectator and, as a "scribe," I transpose the...
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Free Will versus Inevitability
Read more: Le libre arbitre versus l’inévitableFree 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 is nothing original. Robert A. Heinlein, one of the pioneers in the field, had already outlined…
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AI and its staging inconsistencies
Read more: L’IA et ses incohérences de mise en scèneIn 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 depict an author facing a mirror reflecting two versions of himself: one having drastically...



