The Chateau of Edmond Rostand

Well visiting the best region of lower France, my wife and I were fortunate enough to visit the home of Edmond Rostand, The author of Cyrano de Bergerac and Chanticleer, among others.

Rostand's library

His writing office

[Link] Writing books won't make you rich and other findings...

Editor note: File this one under "Duh."

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by L'atelier des écrivains (The Writers' Workshop, France)

• Lack of confidence and time hinders writers’ ability
• Writing books won’t make you rich
• Lots of people want to write a book but few actually get round to doing so

These were just a few of the findings from our recent survey into writers' ambitions, barriers and opportunities (if you contributed to the survey, thank you!)

Headline statistics include:

• Almost half (48%) of respondents wanted to write a book but haven’t yet got around to it, while 31% have started but not finished their book. Less than a fifth (19%) have actually started and completed their book.
• Over half (55%) of those people who hadn’t yet fulfilled their ambition to write a book had been dreaming of writing for “as long as I can remember”.  With 66 per cent of these people being over the age of 35, this equates to a lot of years of wasted time.

Read the full article: https://www.latelierdesecrivains.com/blog/2018/8/6/writing-books-wont-make-you-rich-and-other-findings