Work with Elise Delahaye !

What motivates me is to see that my client and their readers enjoy their reading free and uninterrupted of any comprehension problem.
Every time I can be of use to another writer, I do so. As a translator, as a writer… Every time I can help a reader to have a good time reading something they might not have been able to read otherwise, I do so. This, ensuring that the barrier between language is, to the readers, invisible, and that they enjoy their time ? This is my reward, my motivation. In addition to, you know, living from my passion.
And as a bonus, I also love the mental gymnastics of transferring and adapting someone’s style to my native language.

Whenever there is a linguistic challenge - most of the time, poems, songs or the likes - I do not hesitate to ask help from my network. From other translators I trust to proofread my work, to university lecturers and writers, I can find plenty of help when needed.
The example I can think of right now is, when I was translating a song inside an interactive novel, an original song, and asked for help from another translator who also happens to write songs and is a better poet than am I. We both worked together in translating and adapting this as best as we could and the end result was really pleasant and with sweet rhymes, so much that… I ended up with the song stuck inside my head for a week.

What matters to me most in my native language as a writer and a translator… is the flow of the text.
Thus, I always make sure to make my texts smooth to read – and what helps me is to read them out loud. While I do break structures and use stylistic devices when it is necessary, most of the time it’s unconscious and serves as a punctuation, to give life to this flow. Flow is a huge part of my writing.
So, of course, when I work on a translation, I translate these devices, all the original author’s style, in the text too – either by the same devices or by adapting it to the closest possible, to give the same feelings to their readers. This consistently recreate the original text flow, in a way that is now understandable to French readers.