How did you get into writing?
Very early... and very late!
I started writing as a teenager, with (big surprise!) fan fiction. Decorated notebook, sea green ink, I wrote unpublished episodes of Albator (already, an "animated" vision...)
Then at university, where I was dead bored, I started a galactic saga. Let's be frank, I painted more of a vitriolic portrait of my school and lecture classmates than anything else... But the way of describing characters was already very present!
The years passed: work, work, work.
And then one day, the trigger, the obvious: the Three.1 trilogy written in 9 months, the decision to self-publish....
Since then, I haven't stopped... and have no desire to do so.
Where does your inspiration come from?
I am a child of the 60s, which means I had the chance to grow up during this wonderful period which saw the development of media: television, cinema, music, comics; everything that some pompous people affect to call, with a vaguely contemptuous sniff, "Pop Culture".
Damn those who pinch their nose and say it's too "commercial".
So, it's perhaps not "normal", "at my age", "for a girl", to "act geeky" and "regress" to the level of a teenager. What do you want, some will need an anti-aging cream for their skin, I need a rejuvenating flow for my neurons!
I don't care, I'm addicted, and happy to be.
And also, there are travels: an airport, a flight, a drop-off point, and on arrival: discoveries, wonders, questions, exchanges... and hundreds of photos! Enough to remain elsewhere when you get home... and use it as a setting for stories to write!
How do you work?
Quietly sitting in front of one of my computers!
Yes, as a compulsive geek, I use and abuse technology: files on the cloud, I move without blinking from an iPad to a MacBook Pro, to a laptop or a desktop PC...
On the other hand, initial ideas are always first thrown off paper.
There is a necessary transition from the brain to a pencil, ballpoint pen or fountain pen, before reaching a keyboard. It's a test: only good ideas remain.
So it's a happy mess, between notes on post-its, in notebooks, then images or references on OneNote. There is some kind of gastronomic preparation in this mode of writing: the ingredients are gathered, we will be able to cook a good little meal...
But once in front of the screen, we leave the kitchen to go to the studio.
Silence in the room: headphones on (music loud or noise-canceling mode), in total concentration seen from the outside, in the middle of the film seen from the inside.
I then become the director: everyone is on the set, ready to shoot the scene or the chapter. Lights, OK. Sound, OK. Cameras, OK.
Ready? Action !
