Ask the Author: Isabelle Balagué
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Isabelle Balagué
Beware of... (apparently the machine is not happy with my too short answer. I just followed the assignment.)
Isabelle Balagué
The cheapest art there is... you need very little material to do it.
Just kidding. I never really asked myself this. It's more than I cannot see myself not writing. It's a bit as if you were asking me what is the best thing about breathing. I would answer this is how I stay alive to both questions.
Just kidding. I never really asked myself this. It's more than I cannot see myself not writing. It's a bit as if you were asking me what is the best thing about breathing. I would answer this is how I stay alive to both questions.
Isabelle Balagué
a story about dogs and robots + a non fiction thing...
Isabelle Balagué
Go on. You have nothing to lose or to risk. Just do it.
Isabelle Balagué
Never empty the inspiration tank. I work on limited time sessions and always leave while still having things to write. I begin the next session with anticipation.
Frustration is an underrated tool. At least for me.
Frustration is an underrated tool. At least for me.
Isabelle Balagué
Anywhere, everywhere, anyone. I keep my eyes and my hears and my heart opened. It can be from a dream or a very real person. The sparkle can come from anything really. All you have to do to get inspiration is to expect it can come in any form...but while sitting on your own and waiting for it.
Isabelle Balagué
I explain in the notes where this story came from. Should I add it to the text? Would it interest you to see a post scriptum?
I don't like reading prefaces, I want to dive directly in the story that is whay I usually don't write anything before the text.
For the next one, I read City by Cliffor Simak and saw Panic Room again. My brain usually builds strange bridges between totally unrelated things
I don't like reading prefaces, I want to dive directly in the story that is whay I usually don't write anything before the text.
For the next one, I read City by Cliffor Simak and saw Panic Room again. My brain usually builds strange bridges between totally unrelated things
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