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À l'approche du lancement de « Hemingwrite », notre édition spéciale Freewrite , nous partageons les conseils d'écriture de l'auteur qui a marqué la littérature américaine. L'écriture d'Ernest Hemingway est réputée pour sa concision, sa puissance et sa vérité. Voyons comment il parvient à ce style emblématique.
Tout comme les athlètes professionnels donnent l’impression que leur sport est facile, la prose simple d’Hemingway cache une profondeur et une technique démenties.
Très tôt, Hemingway travailla pour le Kansas City Star. Le guide stylistique du Star l'incitait à rechercher la précision d'écriture. Il choisissait chaque mot avec soin. Il ne se vantait pas de ses prouesses stylistiques pour elles-mêmes. Il s'appliquait à affiner son écriture pour aller droit au but.
La liste ci-dessous décrit son approche principale :
*Avertissements : Hemingway n’écrivait pas seulement des phrases courtes. Ses phrases sont, en moyenne, plus courtes ; il variait la longueur de leurs phrases.
Il a également utilisé une technique appelée « polysyndéton », dans laquelle il enchaînait de nombreuses phrases simples avec des « et » pour accélérer l’action.
On associe souvent les mots « émotionnel » ou « passionné » à « hors de contrôle ». Il semble donc paradoxal que la prose concise d'Hemingway puisse susciter une telle émotion.
La théorie de l'iceberg d'Hemingway repose sur des descriptions minimales qui permettent au lecteur de compléter les espaces vides. (Le terme « iceberg » désigne la petite portion d'un iceberg qui est visible à la surface. La partie visible doit suggérer un monde profond et complexe situé juste au-delà de la page.)
Hemingway a dit : « Il suffit d'écrire une phrase vraie. Écrivez la phrase la plus vraie que vous connaissez. » Si son texte devenait trop élaboré ou ostentatoire, il le laissait tomber et commençait par une phrase vraie et déclarative.
Le style d'écriture d'Hemingway n'est simple qu'en apparence. Maintenant que vous en savez plus, essayez d'appliquer ces conseils dans votre prochain texte. Bonne écriture !
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Freewriter Britt Gondolfi has an important message: people need to put down their phones and LOOK UP. The medium she chose to get this message across? Pigeons and poop jokes.
Find out how Britt and her BFF (who happens to be her illustrator) took a silly song and turned it into a book deal.
Astrohaus, the team behind Freewrite, is an American company. Like many American companies, and virtually all consumer electronic brands, our cost base is global. We work with contractors in Europe, in South America, and in Asia. We purchase components from a global supply chain and assemble our product in China, but make no mistake, we are an American company. The majority of our costs, including goods, services, and payroll, are from the United States. Most of our team lives in the Midwest. I founded this company in Detroit, Michigan, and am still here. I am proud to have built an American company that supports 10+ Americans and their families.
But now we are caught in a trade war that threatens our very existence. A war that was building up over time but has crescendoed to a point that no business owner could have prepared for. As I write this today, we have to pay an additional 145% of the cost of any product made in China as a tax to the U.S. Government.Yesterday it was 104%, up from 54%. In March it was 20% and in February it was 10%. Tomorrow?
Astrohaus is an importer because there is no consumer electronics industry in the U.S. China has emerged over the decades as the world's factory. At first, as a low-cost solution, but in 2025, they are undeniably the best in the world.
Now we are in a pickle because we have established relationships with our contract manufacturing partners that go back to when we started in 2014. Yes, some of the folks we work with today have been with us since the very beginning. They took a chance on us and helped us get off the ground. I have personally spent months on the ground in Hong Kong and China working closely with these folks, whom I now call friends.
Everyone, including our contract manufacturing partners, is helping us explore our options, but the truth is that it is incredibly difficult to move factories. It takes careful planning, huge expense, and much more time than we have.
Unfortunately, we can’t wait to let the trade war resolve itself, nor do we have the advantage big companies like Apple have with a diversified supply base in various countries. We must work with our existing supply base in China, and that means adjusting prices to cover some of our new costs. That's assuming a trade deal gets done, because 100%+ tariffs are simply untenable long term.
On Monday, April 14, we will be raising prices. Not because we want to, but because we have to.Thank you for standing by us over the years. We aren’t going anywhere.
Write on,
Adam
Freewrite Founder & CEO
Bryan Young writes for many magazines and online publications. As you get more entrenched within the industry and develop relationships with editors, the process can vary widely. But at the start of cultivating those relationships, it’s usually very much the same. Here's his walk-through of the process.
