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One Real Week with a Novelist
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One Real Week with a Novelist
Aurelien Fabre has published three novels while working full time as a hospital pharmacist in Marseille. Rather than talk about inspiration, Lea asks him to describe one specific week in detail: the alarms, the pages, the days that collapsed.
- Writing from 5.30 to 6.45 and why the end time matters most
- The two days that produced nothing and how he counts them
- Finishing a chapter badly on purpose so the next day has a start
- Keeping a wordcount notebook for eleven years
Lea closes with her own morning drawing routine and the rule that a bad drawing still counts.
Transcript
Bonjour, and welcome to Blank Page Tuesdays. I am Lea Marchetti, an illustrator in Lyon, and this show is about the part of creative work nobody photographs: turning up. My first guest is Aurelien Fabre, who has written three novels between 5.30 and 6.45 in the morning before his shifts as a hospital pharmacist in Marseille. I did not ask him about inspiration. I asked him to describe one real week, day by day, including the two days where nothing happened. He kept a wordcount notebook for eleven years and he brought it. We talk about ending a chapter badly on purpose so tomorrow has somewhere to begin, and why the time you stop matters more than the time you start. Then I will tell you about my own morning drawing. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.
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