{"id":1309,"date":"2025-07-22T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurentchani.wordpress.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:58:13","slug":"the-author-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/lauteur\/","title":{"rendered":"The author"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Focused writer drafting with a quill, pipe in mouth, symbol of Laurent Chani&#039;s literary work | Focused writer drafting with a quill, pipe in mouth, symbol of Laurent Chani&#039;s literary work\" class=\"wp-image-1418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-medium-font-size\">I am a <strong>science fiction author<\/strong> and of<strong>dystopian anticipation<\/strong>. Since retiring, I have been writing full-time, a new experience for me. I am working on creating a <strong>universe<\/strong> where several <strong>narrative arcs<\/strong> intersect and intertwine between our time and a <strong>interconnected distant future<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-medium-font-size\">To date, I have written approximately <strong>1,000 pages<\/strong>, or close to <strong>350,000 words<\/strong>. Many additions remain to be completed before closing this first draft, which tells the story of a day in the life of my current characters. I have, however, finalized a <strong>narrative arc<\/strong> which will not undergo any further additions. I still have to reread something <strong>400 pages<\/strong> \u2014 a substantial amount of work \u2014 without forgetting the rest of the project: <strong>website<\/strong>, <strong>social networks<\/strong>\u2026and, of course, continue the<strong>writing<\/strong> !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Je suis un auteur de science-fiction et d\u2019anticipation dystopique. Depuis le d\u00e9but de ma retraite, j\u2019\u00e9cris d\u00e9sormais \u00e0 plein temps, une exp\u00e9rience in\u00e9dite pour moi. Je travaille \u00e0 la cr\u00e9ation d\u2019un univers o\u00f9 plusieurs arcs narratifs se croisent et s\u2019entrecroisent entre notre \u00e9poque et un futur lointain interconnect\u00e9.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P.jpg",512,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P.jpg",512,512,false],"large":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P.jpg",512,512,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P.jpg",512,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P.jpg",512,512,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P-12x12.jpg",12,12,true],"mailpoet_newsletter_max":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/@Big-Daddy-47-P.jpg",512,512,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Laurent CHANI","author_link":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/author\/laurentchojnowski970fe415b2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Je suis un auteur de science-fiction et d\u2019anticipation dystopique. 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Je travaille \u00e0 la cr\u00e9ation d\u2019un univers o\u00f9 plusieurs arcs narratifs se croisent et s\u2019entrecroisent entre notre \u00e9poque et un futur lointain interconnect\u00e9.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}