My Brief Encounter interview with YouScribe

A brief encounter 

Coming from a multinational multicultural family I learnt many languages and to deal with many cultures...
This has shown me the importance of words and communication.

Words are sweet water to my lips...
for lack of a better word I'll make up my own if I have to... if it serves the purpose of my writing... words are all yet sometimes words are not enough...

From the minute I could write I wrote... and haven't stopped yet...I wrote… before I could even write…

As soon as I put pen to paper the first word is followed by another and another and another and words tag on together… and the words become my words for my greatest pleasure…

Words and I are words of a feather…

I look at my writing in more of an oral approach… spoken word’s the written word here… our lips are not sealed…

My writing evolves around not only words and ideas but also reason and rhymes… sounds like poetry… imagine you’re listening… and let yourself be carried away…

My words depict the surreal side of everyday life… with all its eerie magic… riding the crest of the jagged edge between fact and fiction…

The music of my words is my melody…

Play on words play with words… play on sounds play with sounds…

Adaptations, articles, books, lyrics, musicals, poetry, reviews, scenarios, short stories, songs, texts, …

I specialise in teaching training and coaching in language and communication and cross-cultural trainer and adviser… I look at my writing in more of an oral approach… spoken word’s the written word here… our lips are not sealed…

I am also a fully trained caterer as well as a hypnotherapist, a Reiki practitioner and music therapist…

I also translate and adapt my writing and others’ from as well as into English, French and Italian… and I produce my own audio books in French (3) and English (7)…

Literature plays a major part in your life.

How did it all start ?

Literature and art in general play an essential part of my life… the mere pleasure of words and puns, the need to communicate and share first and foremost… exchanging too… but also the whole game of writing and the secret wish to provoke thoughts… I write… I write… I write without ever being able to stop… as though words and ideas were channelled through me…

Which are your literary and non-literary influences ? 

My literary influences

So many ! The Nouveau Roman… Nathalie SARRAUTE, Sylvie GERMAIN, Christian BOBIN, Ernst JANDL, …

Poetry, songs and music… Barbara, Jeanne-Marie SENS, Alain BASHUNG, Michel BERGER, Claude NOUGARO, …

My non-literary influences

Anything and everything really ! Sciences, photography, painting, nature…

People, philosophy, sociology, spirituality, everyday life… everything in a word…

I love playing with the surrealistic side of life… most people let it go by without ever noticing it… without realising… playing with life’s potentialities… and of course –although rarely- experience… to name but a few…

Which are your favourite themes ?

People, philosophy, sociology, spirituality, everyday life… everything in a word… my writings often gather in themes… my books and collection often do too and around typical themes such as… (BioHazard (Recyclage in French) and Umma Dawn (Un Mythe Ummite in French), revolve around the idea of nature and life… Umma Dawn (Un Mythe Ummite in French), and Live To Tell (L’Enfant Perdu in French) rely on personal experience… others like On Air (A L’Antenne in French) and Y2K are about communication and politics… while others still are about music, teaching and writing itself…

If you had to relocate on another planet which books would you take along ? 

Les Échos du Silence (The Echoes Of Silence) by Sylvie GERMAIN… but it sure wouldn’t be the only one…

Jesse CRAIGNOU

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