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(a literary room on the internet)

monologues journaliers is a house for writing. Its living room, Le ⊙Cercle, is open: it’s where we meet to write together.

Writing is the thread that runs through everything I do. Most of what I write never leaves the silent monologue of my notebooks; in November, I start my first manuscript with Lolita Pille’s Groupe Manuscrit. Here, I open the door.

Mathilde Lagarrigue

02 · (The house)

Every room has its use. Only one is open for now; the others are being built.

  1. (Open)

    Le ⊙Cercle

    the living room, where we meet to write together, online.

    Come in
  2. (Later)

    La ꩜Chambre

    a room of one’s own, where, one day, we’ll do our life’s work.

  3. (Later)

    La Table

    the kitchen, where mind-bending conversations will happen around good food.

03 · (The living room · Le ⊙Cercle)

An hour to write together, in silence.

We sit down at the table together and write: your book, your journal, that piece you’ve been putting off for months. There’s nothing to know, only to show up. Co-writing hours are free, twice a month.

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A co-writing hour of Le ⊙Cercle: four writers on a video call, on a laptop screen
  1. 01

    We meet

    online, on time, camera on or off.

  2. 02

    We set an intention

    a few minutes to say what we’ll write.

  3. 03

    We write

    for an hour, each on our own, together.

  4. 04

    We leave

    with pages, and the urge to come back.

(Two ways in)

Le ⊙Cercle lives on Substack between writing hours.

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  • co-writing hours, twice a month
  • personal essays and musings
  • book reviews
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  • a monthly journaling club
  • a monthly creative writing game
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05 · (Manifesto)

  1. 01(Here, writing is)

    a practice, playful and fun, something we return to, more alive when shared.

  2. 02(It is not)

    a performance, a writing course, a place where you need to know what you’re doing.

  3. 03(I am not)

    a writing teacher, a therapist, a content creator.

I’m an aspiring writer in practice, too.

(What carries us)

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. — Susan Sontag
(Susan Sontag · via Pinterest)
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. — Anaïs Nin
(Anaïs Nin · via Pinterest)
I write because I cannot stop feeling. And feeling is a kind of walking in the dark. — Clarice Lispector
(Clarice Lispector · via Pinterest)
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking. — Joan Didion
(Joan Didion · via Pinterest)
No woman has ever written enough. — bell hooks
(bell hooks · via Pinterest)
You must find the courage to prioritise your art.
(via Pinterest)
Write until you surprise yourself.
(via Pinterest)
Write the poem your ancestors dreamed you’d write.
(via Pinterest)

06 · (Where it comes from)

monologues journaliers was born in 2021, with deep questions asked to strangers on stories, then a deck of question cards that travelled all around Europe. Today it’s no longer a house of tools to get to know yourself: it’s a space to write, in community. Here, we are writers because we write.

The cards and the seven days of meditation are still in the shop.

Come in, take a seat. There’s always room for you in this house.