Ces auteurs qui cherchent trop

Écrire, même de la fiction, implique parfois beaucoup de recherche.

Énormément de recherche.

Recherche jusqu’au point où on n’arrive plus à écrire parce qu’on croit qu’on n’a pas encore terminé la recherche.

Vous êtes comme moi? Vous apprécierez alors le nouveau blogue de Lisa Gold, professionnelle de recherche. En plus d’enseigner l’art de bien chercher des informations (y’a pas juste le Web!) et d’identifier des sources fiables, Lisa travaille conjointement avec des écrivains qui ont des besoin spécifiques pour la rédaction de leurs ouvrages.

J’ai particulièrement apprécié ses conseils d’aujourd’hui concernant les auteurs qui en font un peu trop.

-Don’t become obsessed with details that aren’t important to anyone but you, but take the time to confirm the accuracy of information you do use so you can avoid obvious bloopers and preventable errors.

-Know when to stop. Don’t let research interfere with your writing.

Euh… ça commence quand, la thérapie?

Stories that make us angry in a whole new way

Great article in the New York Times about Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and its writing process:

The writers work throughout the morning on deadline pieces spawned by breaking news, as well as longer-term projects, trying to find, as Josh Lieb, a co-executive producer of the show, put it, stories that “make us angry in a whole new way.” By lunchtime, Mr. Stewart (who functions as the show’s managing editor and says he thinks of hosting as almost an afterthought) has begun reviewing headline jokes. By 3 p.m. a script is in; at 4:15, Mr. Stewart and the crew rehearse that script, along with assembled graphics, sound bites and montages. There is an hour or so for rewrites — which can be intense, newspaper-deadlinelike affairs — before a 6 o’clock taping with a live studio audience. […]

Mr. Stewart has said he is looking forward to the end of the Bush administration “as a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal.”