FAQ

How is it possible to go from something personal to something that is shown to a larger public? 

It's one thing to write for yourself, and only for yourself, and it's another one to write a story that will be read by others. I've always considered writing as the medium that allows me to say everything, to express everything. Writing allows me to understand what I can feel deep down inside and the greatest chance is to be able to share what you write with others.  With all those people who can, through your book, discover yourself and your story.

What exactly does this story mean to you? 

This story is like my secret garden; this place where you love to hide when things go wrong. I feel a great freedom when I write and I write the ideas as they come to me. Simply. Freely... I say to myself, deep down inside, "If this story makes sense to you, if the sentences you write sound right, if you take pleasure in writing it, then keep going and you will realise that others will certainly appreciate it for what it is..."

Why do you want to write your own story? 

When I started writing this story, I had no idea it could turn into a book. At that time, I was feeling insecure, discouraged, and I was facing a failure that was going to ask me to change the vision I had of my future. This story happened right in that moment: from a paragraph found on a forgotten word document, I wanted to carry on with this idea to see what it could bring. The more I wrote, the better I felt. Writing this story was a way for me to escape, to forget reality for just a few pages. So I kept writing, for me, because I was enjoying discovering this story which, step by step, was taking shape in my mind.

How does writing help you in your life? 

When I was younger, my timidity kept me from expressing myself, from sharing my thoughts, my ideas and, most of all, it kept me from being able to speak out when something didn't please me, didn't suit me or made me feel uncomfortable... As soon as I started writing, I immediately felt a sense of release within me. As if this weight, which was always there, was slowly disappearing... Writing relieved me. Soothed me. Today, if I keep on writing my thoughts, it is because they allow me to feel, each time, this feeling of release and appeasement. The words fly away when the writings stay. Each story is a way for me to fly away. To escape, for a while, from this reality and to feel this feeling of plenitude that you might feel when you let yourself float on the surface of the water... A feeling of lightness that encourages you to think about thoughts that I find essential. They are an opportunity to meditate, to relax and to be immersed in each idea...
After all, I think that if writing those ideas allows me to feel all these sensations perhaps they will allow other people to feel these same sensations...