{"id":1310,"date":"2025-07-22T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurentchani.wordpress.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:57:53","slug":"at-what-age-did-i-start-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/a-quel-age-ai-je-commencer-a-ecrire\/","title":{"rendered":"At what age did I start writing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I tried a first one essay<\/strong> around the age of twenty. I had written about a hundred pages of a science fiction story<\/strong>, already marked by the influence of Dune<\/em><\/strong> of Frank Herbert<\/strong>. But I had neither the support nor the necessary perspective. My motivation<\/strong> was forged over time; I had something to say that words alone were not enough to express.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then one day, for no particular reason, I opened a file Word<\/strong> and I pushed a idea<\/strong>, one sentence after another. It was strange how natural it seemed to me. We often talk about the running out of fuel<\/strong> in front of a blank sheet of paper; it might happen to me. We shouldn't presume about the future. But, for the moment, it's not my case. I must also admit that thewriting<\/strong> is undoubtedly one of the mind exercises<\/strong> the most difficult I know. And yet, at the time already, I had treated myself to a dictionary of synonyms<\/strong> that I still own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To theprimary school<\/strong>, I was bad, very bad even, at thewriting<\/strong> : it was regularly a zero point for each dictation. Today, I thank tools like Word<\/strong> and, recently, theAI<\/strong>, which help me find words and turns of phrase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn't dare to take the feather<\/strong> \u2014 or rather thecomputer<\/strong> \u2014 that a few years ago. And yet, my professional life<\/strong> was going to write reports<\/strong> and emails<\/strong>. So I started writing again in the form of news<\/strong>. And now that I am at the retirement<\/strong>, I'm really going for it. Come what may<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J\u2019ai tent\u00e9 un premier essai vers mes vingt ans. J\u2019avais \u00e9crit une centaine de pages d\u2019une histoire de science-fiction, d\u00e9j\u00e0 marqu\u00e9e par l\u2019influence de Dune de Frank Herbert. Mais je n\u2019avais ni l\u2019appui ni le recul n\u00e9cessaire. Ma motivation s\u2019est forg\u00e9e avec le temps ; j\u2019avais quelque chose \u00e0 dire que la parole seule ne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pourquoi-ecrire","category-processus-decriture"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-25-1.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-25-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-25-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-25-1.jpg",768,512,false],"large":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-25-1.jpg",768,512,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-25-1.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-25-1.jpg",768,512,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-25-1-18x12.jpg",18,12,true],"mailpoet_newsletter_max":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-25-1.jpg",768,512,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Laurent CHANI","author_link":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/author\/laurentchojnowski970fe415b2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":3,"uagb_excerpt":"J\u2019ai tent\u00e9 un premier essai vers mes vingt ans. J\u2019avais \u00e9crit une centaine de pages d\u2019une histoire de science-fiction, d\u00e9j\u00e0 marqu\u00e9e par l\u2019influence de Dune de Frank Herbert. Mais je n\u2019avais ni l\u2019appui ni le recul n\u00e9cessaire. Ma motivation s\u2019est forg\u00e9e avec le temps ; j\u2019avais quelque chose \u00e0 dire que la parole seule ne…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","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=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4128,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/4128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}