« Imagine if you spent an hour of your time, every day, on your dream, and potentially a little more on weekends. At the end of the month, you would have given almost thirty-five hours to your dream, a full week of work in France. A whole week every month when you would have just focused on your novel. This is possible if you make it your priority and book it an hour a day. And if it's less, because you can't do otherwise, well, it's already a step forward! Every hour, every word counts. And every hour you spend writing, you're going to improve, both in terms of how quickly you'll get into your writing, both in terms of writing style, how fast you write. You will train your muscle from writing. I know that we often see artists' trades as professions where talent is needed. Yes, surely at the base, you need a form of talent. But I compare it to sports. Roger Federer didn't have such a magnificent backhand the first day he started playing. Or the second. Or the third. He trained tirelessly for years, until it became automatic. It is said that it takes ten thousand hours to master a musical instrument for example. So, yes, every hour counts, every hour takes you on the path of progress and improvement. Don't neglect any time. It is when you put them end to end that you can admire your progress. »

« What's difficult in writing a novel - and that's why a lot of authors never go to the end of writing their manuscript, I think - is how long it takes. When you can only give it two hours on weekends and not one minute on weekdays, it will certainly take a year to write a manuscript, maybe more. It's disheartening to see that you still can't get to the end, so sometimes you don't write for one weekend or the next, and then, finally, what's the point of writing? We will never get to the end. Don't fall into this vicious circle. Don't allow yourself to d e l e t e a writing session. If that's your priority, it's the last thing that has to jump. The only reason you don't sit at your desk, on your couch or in your favorite coffee shop to write is because you or someone close to you is in danger. Or that you're too sick to get out of bed. Do you get the idea? A priority, a real one, we don't go back on it, we don't make excuses, we don't say: "Yes, but it's the weekend, I need to rest. Today, I don't write." No. No, no, We're getting started. Even if you tell yourself that you're going to throw away what you wrote because it's too bad: it doesn't matter, you've trained your muscle, you've progressed. There are days with it, there are days without, it's the same for a tennis player. There are days when nothing goes over the net. But that doesn't mean he's going to give up training. He will learn something from his session, he will eventually find out what made it work, and the days without being less numerous as the sessions go by. And for this story to throw away what you wrote because you consider it bad... Don't do it right now. Let. You'll come back to it later and you might see it in a different light. »