[Music]
good evening I’m a novelist is often
the readers who come to see me a
book fair asks me the question
next if you were to give us a
only good advice for writing a book
which would it be then I answer them
find a good idea if you find
a good idea is already a big step
in writing
so tonight I’m going to invite you to
enter the head of a novelist we go
discover them together a little bit
goes into disrupted brain and I try
to show you how a good idea
can be realized in a reality in
the framework of a research on the idea we have
asked a group of people or
when they found their good ideas
and here are the most answers
frequently mentioned in the morning in me
waking up in public transport
while driving in the shower while doing
my jogging and even in this place very
spiritual that are the toilets then
there is a common point to all these
responses
is that most of the time we
find our ideas at the moment when if we
least expected
or when we are no longer looking for you
give some examples
paul dirac who was one of the fathers of
quantum mechanics has found its
big idea about particles in themselves
reminiscing a childhood home henri
famous punched mathematician succeeded
to solve a problem on which and
strive for months in
walking along the beach we know
all newton who was resting
quietly under an apple tree
when he discovered gravity then
I myself have also lived this kind
pretty stupid amazing experience
of illuminations it was a few
years I wanted to write a novel that
was about evolution
when it’s a theme that fascinated me
but I did not arrive as
novelist to express what is
evolution
I obviously had explanations
scientists but it was way too much
past visual complexes
and then a day a bit like all
others I will do my little jogging
and I get overtaken by another
joker who had pretty much the same
physiognomy that me and I remember
to be told to me but why do they
run faster than me
and when I see him disappear
in the distance I had my idea that appeared
so I rushed to my
computer and tried to
schematize the following way I
imagined two little dinosaurs that was
chased by a much more dinosaur
big and far more aggressive and I was this
second small dinosaur trolling
behind and I say my predecessor
but what is the use of running because of
anyway he runs much faster
that we and you know what answers the
predecessor he tells him I’m not looking
not to run faster than he is looking for
just to run faster than you it was
a simple idea but who
represented exactly
finally the idea that I wanted to
to make evolution is that
evolution is a perpetual race to
survival and this sentence this idea
go accompany me throughout my
writing work a bit like a
mantra I was going to repeat myself every
day was going to be the driving force of my
characters that they are police
assassins good nasty all my
characters were going to run for their
survival that’s the way that I
built them then is that it
means to run at length
of day to take showers in
permanent for to have his ideas his
good ideas
certainly not enough I took
these some pretty examples
characteristic emile zola when he has
albert einstein germinal writing with the
theory of relativity or joseph swan
when he invented the ampoulé one suspects
although these great ideas his good
ideas did not come in a snap
of finger or haphazard luck
finally whatever the context
whatever the time whatever
the subject the good ideas takes time to
sprout and are hard to go
search and I try to explain
why in the simplest way
possible
asked to imagine his nine points as
being the subject you want to
treat your raw materials on
potting soil in which you want to
digging it can be a problem that
you want to solve a fact of
society around which you have
want to develop some thoughts
it may be a desire too imagine
you like cooking
you want to develop your
own recipe ideas you go
you surrounded by ingredient books
this is a little what represent
these nine points then you’re going to
to think about finding
ideas and you will realize
that ideas will arrive extremely
quickly very quickly you will have some
ideas but unfortunately these ideas that
will arrive I put them in the trash
why because they came too
quickly most of the time
these are bad ideas ideas
already existing snapshots of
stereotypes
they will demonstrate these ideas do
evidence of a lack of inspiration from a
lack of originality
they are all part of his ideas of what
that I call the field of reflection
classic or the comfort zone one is
quietly installed
it is symbolized this area by this
circle that imprisons his ideas that
content of a pie is actually your
raw materials if I ask you to
connect these nine points in four strokes
of pencil without ever lifting your mine
in four lines in four lines you
can mentally try to join his
nine times in four lines I’m doing a
try here and then redo a whole bunch of
these road trials to join these
points we finally realize that
every time well we can not do it by
against once you’ve eliminated
all its possibilities
and you’re looking for you widen
a little bit of your thinking area what
I call we are strong he is
very unlikely that your good idea
you found it in this area
of efforts I wrote sixteen novels one to
about as many years the time spent
extremely fast and I realized
account of a constant really
surprising
it was that I had systematically
between three and six months between the moment
where I was finishing my previous novel and
the moment I found the good idea of
my next novel not a week
do not have 15 days and between three and six
month is long when we look for a
idea i let you imagine then
I was trying to understand understand
why it was so much and finally
the conclusion and it’s pretty simple
is that finding a good idea requires
time of the work effort and
a lot of passion and this long process
I break them down into two big two
steps that can be applied each
of us when we look for ideas
the first is a little what we did
for the nine points we will eliminate everything
what is bad all the bad
all the bad ideas all the
ideas that come very quickly we’re going
put them in the trash we will empty
our comfort zone and anyway
it must be said that the good idea she
can not be there in there in
this comfort zone because
someone else would have found it at
see you otherwise and then we go to them
to feed this zone of efforts we will
give to eat
so how does one feed a
area of effort or to feed it by
meetings by reflections by
readings by documentation around
of this topic that interests you who you
passionate I come back to my novel about
the evolution game I tried to did not know
not at the time what I was going to write
I had this sentence obviously that
I had found with the dinosaurs but
it did not give me the idea of my novel
so I knew I did not know what
I was going to write but I knew what I
did not want to write I did not want to
write stories that already existed
that I had already read I really wanted
do different
so I quickly emptied this area of
comfort and I’m going to feed my area
of efforts and how I feed them
this zone of 2 of efforts by
readings all these readings around
evolution
I read all his books there are in there
theses essays novels even he
is the origin of Darwin species and
then I had to meet people from
biologists’ researchers
evolutionary biology specialists
geneticists to discuss with them
then I went for a walk in
places that inspire me there we see
the great gallery of evolution in paris
but what is terrible also what
is terribly frustrating that’s it
do not give you the solution to have
the good idea it feeds you but
the idea I was always in the process of
search at that moment what is that
I was going to write despite all this
matter that I had accumulated
and then comes the moment when you
be so anxious that you want
to move on
you can not anymore is actually it’s
exactly what needs to be done to
something else
I will go even if an essential condition
to find a good idea why
because because your brain is
extraordinary he is able to
perform multiple tasks at the same time
and while you’re in the process of
do completely something else
he is able to take a task is
to put it in the background and to
work on it without you in
see you’re sending
an email
it is attending a meeting
to run are here and during that time
there and at your very small idea an embryo
of ideas that is in the process of the cub and
warm in your brain and she
will feed on all this material that
that you have accumulated
it will even create links between all
these elements she will grow up grow
grow up one moment she goes
appear in your head a bit like
by magic by illumination
we finally see that very few
magic the 2 in may
so much work and effort in
upstream and to illustrate a little it is
all I’m going to tell you
I would really like to tell you
greatest the largest phase ii the
largest incubation research cycle
elimination that I could live in
trying to create a booklet it was all
besides everything at the very beginning of my
writer’s career for a novel that
is called the death chamber I
were beginning to write and at the time my
contract but nine points – is
extremely simple
I wanted to write a crime novel with
suspense inside that’s good
nice enough priori and then I had a
talent life for this book I wanted that
it’s happening in the area because
it’s mine and I loved it
I wanted to talk about it in a novel
but in a different way so I
am put to do some research on the
region on on these people on its history
its social fabric
and then I did some research on
the policeman universe how is unfolding
investigation
we have an autopsy I was watching
a lot of reports on the police
scientist on the various facts trial
to feed my mind a little bit and then to
the time I was fascinated by the effect
butterfly I’m still from elsewhere
it is this ability that an event of
change a whole lot of fate like we
said and in the crime novel I wanted
also who is a bit of social to
inside because the crime novel
like to talk about society and then
it was obvious that an investigation
police
it’s important and a big bad guy
because there are always some in them
Detective novels
and then a lot of other little desires
like that and that was the state of my
brain at one point and I can
to tell you I slept badly enough with
all this matter in my head because
that I still do not know what in
to make of it still no idea of
novels ben yes what am I going
write with all that all this material
I had accumulated
and then one evening like all the others I
quit my job I was an engineer
data processing
and I was working in the area
industrial dunkerque where the
recognize and then I take my
car and I find myself in this street
it was night there were all his
lights there was no one in the
industrial zone and the scene that I
want me to see that I visualize game the
visualize again tonight
as I see you where I’m trying to you
in any case, as I see you
you I’m rolling and a
one shot
I imagine I see a car that
was coming in front of me in this
car there are two men driving
extremely fast and that will hit a
man walking through at that moment
this man is wearing a big bag of money
in his hand this money was a
ransom who is by the way that he was going
hand over a kidnapper who was hidden
right into a warehouse just along
this road and who is afraid who
obviously saw everything this idea she
came to me almost instantly
evening there in two three minutes
that is to say, without my making it
account all the elements on which
I was going to work it was
interconnect to each other my
butterfly effect was there it was
the accident
the accident is still acting on a lot of
destiny but two men who were in
the car was going to embark the body and
money what she generated a
police investigation
it was happening in the area it was
in the years a strict dunkirk
of which there was also all this fabric
social that was underlying is
obviously there was this big bad guy
who had seen everything and who was
with a little girl under the arms and
without the money and this idea she has me
really exploded in the face when
I saw it was an elimination and
that moment you know it’s the
good idea is a writer who has a
good idea like that but he no longer
that a desire is to write it
this idea and this idea she is going
produce a book then and again from
work obviously between the moment when
you have an idea like this one she
is the final book a lot of them from
time spent on reflection hours
but we can see the importance of
good idea finally because when
you have a good idea
you already hold your project you hold
your book when I had this idea I
knew that I had my book was
almost written
and then that’s pretty awesome
ultimately in this process of
idc search that good idea that
was generated after a long time and
working
you can use it a bit like
the basic brick of a new cycle of
reflection
that is to say that at some point in my
course I ended up with all
those books that I had written
after the others and all that was a little
in my head
independent and then as the first
once the links are created it’s a
cube and it grew up in me and then that
gave another good idea I find
who was the one to change profession in
2007 I went from the same job
from engineer to writer’s craft to
full time so we can see that the
good ideas can change the world
good ideas can make the world
best of the little ideas that
growing and growing and that
still grow and pushes us towards the
high and trace the paths of our lives
so I would say that in the periods of
doubt that you can have and we have
all and that’s normal I would say believe in
you even believed in his abilities
extraordinary of your brain’s
your mind and do not hesitate to
realize your ideas to achieve your
dreams
thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
good evening I’m a novelist is often
the readers who come to see me a
book fair asks me the question
next if you were to give us a
only good advice for writing a book
which would it be then I answer them
find a good idea if you find
a good idea is already a big step
in writing
so tonight I’m going to invite you to
enter the head of a novelist we go
discover them together a little bit
goes into disrupted brain and I try
to show you how a good idea
can be realized in a reality in
the framework of a research on the idea we have
asked a group of people or
when they found their good ideas
and here are the most answers
frequently mentioned in the morning in me
waking up in public transport
while driving in the shower while doing
my jogging and even in this place very
spiritual that are the toilets then
there is a common point to all these
responses
is that most of the time we
find our ideas at the moment when if we
least expected
or when we are no longer looking for you
give some examples
paul dirac who was one of the fathers of
quantum mechanics has found its
big idea about particles in themselves
reminiscing a childhood home henri
famous punched mathematician succeeded
to solve a problem on which and
strive for months in
walking along the beach we know
all newton who was resting
quietly under an apple tree
when he discovered gravity then
I myself have also lived this kind
pretty stupid amazing experience
of illuminations it was a few
years I wanted to write a novel that
was about evolution
when it’s a theme that fascinated me
but I did not arrive as
novelist to express what is
evolution
I obviously had explanations
scientists but it was way too much
past visual complexes
and then a day a bit like all
others I will do my little jogging
and I get overtaken by another
joker who had pretty much the same
physiognomy that me and I remember
to be told to me but why do they
run faster than me
and when I see him disappear
in the distance I had my idea that appeared
so I rushed to my
computer and tried to
schematize the following way I
imagined two little dinosaurs that was
chased by a much more dinosaur
big and far more aggressive and I was this
second small dinosaur trolling
behind and I say my predecessor
but what is the use of running because of
anyway he runs much faster
that we and you know what answers the
predecessor he tells him I’m not looking
not to run faster than he is looking for
just to run faster than you it was
a simple idea but who
represented exactly
finally the idea that I wanted to
to make evolution is that
evolution is a perpetual race to
survival and this sentence this idea
go accompany me throughout my
writing work a bit like a
mantra I was going to repeat myself every
day was going to be the driving force of my
characters that they are police
assassins good nasty all my
characters were going to run for their
survival that’s the way that I
built them then is that it
means to run at length
of day to take showers in
permanent for to have his ideas his
good ideas
certainly not enough I took
these some pretty examples
characteristic emile zola when he has
albert einstein germinal writing with the
theory of relativity or joseph swan
when he invented the ampoulé one suspects
although these great ideas his good
ideas did not come in a snap
of finger or haphazard luck
finally whatever the context
whatever the time whatever
the subject the good ideas takes time to
sprout and are hard to go
search and I try to explain
why in the simplest way
possible
asked to imagine his nine points as
being the subject you want to
treat your raw materials on
potting soil in which you want to
digging it can be a problem that
you want to solve a fact of
society around which you have
want to develop some thoughts
it may be a desire too imagine
you like cooking
you want to develop your
own recipe ideas you go
you surrounded by ingredient books
this is a little what represent
these nine points then you’re going to
to think about finding
ideas and you will realize
that ideas will arrive extremely
quickly very quickly you will have some
ideas but unfortunately these ideas that
will arrive I put them in the trash
why because they came too
quickly most of the time
these are bad ideas ideas
already existing snapshots of
stereotypes
they will demonstrate these ideas do
evidence of a lack of inspiration from a
lack of originality
they are all part of his ideas of what
that I call the field of reflection
classic or the comfort zone one is
quietly installed
it is symbolized this area by this
circle that imprisons his ideas that
content of a pie is actually your
raw materials if I ask you to
connect these nine points in four strokes
of pencil without ever lifting your mine
in four lines in four lines you
can mentally try to join his
nine times in four lines I’m doing a
try here and then redo a whole bunch of
these road trials to join these
points we finally realize that
every time well we can not do it by
against once you’ve eliminated
all its possibilities
and you’re looking for you widen
a little bit of your thinking area what
I call we are strong he is
very unlikely that your good idea
you found it in this area
of efforts I wrote sixteen novels one to
about as many years the time spent
extremely fast and I realized
account of a constant really
surprising
it was that I had systematically
between three and six months between the moment
where I was finishing my previous novel and
the moment I found the good idea of
my next novel not a week
do not have 15 days and between three and six
month is long when we look for a
idea i let you imagine then
I was trying to understand understand
why it was so much and finally
the conclusion and it’s pretty simple
is that finding a good idea requires
time of the work effort and
a lot of passion and this long process
I break them down into two big two
steps that can be applied each
of us when we look for ideas
the first is a little what we did
for the nine points we will eliminate everything
what is bad all the bad
all the bad ideas all the
ideas that come very quickly we’re going
put them in the trash we will empty
our comfort zone and anyway
it must be said that the good idea she
can not be there in there in
this comfort zone because
someone else would have found it at
see you otherwise and then we go to them
to feed this zone of efforts we will
give to eat
so how does one feed a
area of effort or to feed it by
meetings by reflections by
readings by documentation around
of this topic that interests you who you
passionate I come back to my novel about
the evolution game I tried to did not know
not at the time what I was going to write
I had this sentence obviously that
I had found with the dinosaurs but
it did not give me the idea of my novel
so I knew I did not know what
I was going to write but I knew what I
did not want to write I did not want to
write stories that already existed
that I had already read I really wanted
do different
so I quickly emptied this area of
comfort and I’m going to feed my area
of efforts and how I feed them
this zone of 2 of efforts by
readings all these readings around
evolution
I read all his books there are in there
theses essays novels even he
is the origin of Darwin species and
then I had to meet people from
biologists’ researchers
evolutionary biology specialists
geneticists to discuss with them
then I went for a walk in
places that inspire me there we see
the great gallery of evolution in paris
but what is terrible also what
is terribly frustrating that’s it
do not give you the solution to have
the good idea it feeds you but
the idea I was always in the process of
search at that moment what is that
I was going to write despite all this
matter that I had accumulated
and then comes the moment when you
be so anxious that you want
to move on
you can not anymore is actually it’s
exactly what needs to be done to
something else
I will go even if an essential condition
to find a good idea why
because because your brain is
extraordinary he is able to
perform multiple tasks at the same time
and while you’re in the process of
do completely something else
he is able to take a task is
to put it in the background and to
work on it without you in
see you’re sending
an email
it is attending a meeting
to run are here and during that time
there and at your very small idea an embryo
of ideas that is in the process of the cub and
warm in your brain and she
will feed on all this material that
that you have accumulated
it will even create links between all
these elements she will grow up grow
grow up one moment she goes
appear in your head a bit like
by magic by illumination
we finally see that very few
magic the 2 in may
so much work and effort in
upstream and to illustrate a little it is
all I’m going to tell you
I would really like to tell you
greatest the largest phase ii the
largest incubation research cycle
elimination that I could live in
trying to create a booklet it was all
besides everything at the very beginning of my
writer’s career for a novel that
is called the death chamber I
were beginning to write and at the time my
contract but nine points – is
extremely simple
I wanted to write a crime novel with
suspense inside that’s good
nice enough priori and then I had a
talent life for this book I wanted that
it’s happening in the area because
it’s mine and I loved it
I wanted to talk about it in a novel
but in a different way so I
am put to do some research on the
region on on these people on its history
its social fabric
and then I did some research on
the policeman universe how is unfolding
investigation
we have an autopsy I was watching
a lot of reports on the police
scientist on the various facts trial
to feed my mind a little bit and then to
the time I was fascinated by the effect
butterfly I’m still from elsewhere
it is this ability that an event of
change a whole lot of fate like we
said and in the crime novel I wanted
also who is a bit of social to
inside because the crime novel
like to talk about society and then
it was obvious that an investigation
police
it’s important and a big bad guy
because there are always some in them
Detective novels
and then a lot of other little desires
like that and that was the state of my
brain at one point and I can
to tell you I slept badly enough with
all this matter in my head because
that I still do not know what in
to make of it still no idea of
novels ben yes what am I going
write with all that all this material
I had accumulated
and then one evening like all the others I
quit my job I was an engineer
data processing
and I was working in the area
industrial dunkerque where the
recognize and then I take my
car and I find myself in this street
it was night there were all his
lights there was no one in the
industrial zone and the scene that I
want me to see that I visualize game the
visualize again tonight
as I see you where I’m trying to you
in any case, as I see you
you I’m rolling and a
one shot
I imagine I see a car that
was coming in front of me in this
car there are two men driving
extremely fast and that will hit a
man walking through at that moment
this man is wearing a big bag of money
in his hand this money was a
ransom who is by the way that he was going
hand over a kidnapper who was hidden
right into a warehouse just along
this road and who is afraid who
obviously saw everything this idea she
came to me almost instantly
evening there in two three minutes
that is to say, without my making it
account all the elements on which
I was going to work it was
interconnect to each other my
butterfly effect was there it was
the accident
the accident is still acting on a lot of
destiny but two men who were in
the car was going to embark the body and
money what she generated a
police investigation
it was happening in the area it was
in the years a strict dunkirk
of which there was also all this fabric
social that was underlying is
obviously there was this big bad guy
who had seen everything and who was
with a little girl under the arms and
without the money and this idea she has me
really exploded in the face when
I saw it was an elimination and
that moment you know it’s the
good idea is a writer who has a
good idea like that but he no longer
that a desire is to write it
this idea and this idea she is going
produce a book then and again from
work obviously between the moment when
you have an idea like this one she
is the final book a lot of them from
time spent on reflection hours
but we can see the importance of
good idea finally because when
you have a good idea
you already hold your project you hold
your book when I had this idea I
knew that I had my book was
almost written
and then that’s pretty awesome
ultimately in this process of
idc search that good idea that
was generated after a long time and
working
you can use it a bit like
the basic brick of a new cycle of
reflection
that is to say that at some point in my
course I ended up with all
those books that I had written
after the others and all that was a little
in my head
independent and then as the first
once the links are created it’s a
cube and it grew up in me and then that
gave another good idea I find
who was the one to change profession in
2007 I went from the same job
from engineer to writer’s craft to
full time so we can see that the
good ideas can change the world
good ideas can make the world
best of the little ideas that
growing and growing and that
still grow and pushes us towards the
high and trace the paths of our lives
so I would say that in the periods of
doubt that you can have and we have
all and that’s normal I would say believe in
you even believed in his abilities
extraordinary of your brain’s
your mind and do not hesitate to
realize your ideas to achieve your
dreams
thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
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