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Writing for Love And/or Money
Frank Daniel Gilroy
其他書名
Outtakes from a Life on Spec : the Early Years
出版Smith and Kraus, 2007
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresPerforming Arts / Theater / Playwriting
ISBN15752557159781575255712
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JPcfAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋As the man introducing me at the Community College goes on about my loftier achievements and awards, the audience (kids from families straining so they can get a higher education) openly yawns. Scrapping my prepared remarks, I tell them 90 percent of my career has been failure.' I've been dead broke six times and if I don't sell something soon it'll be seven. "I have their attention." In short, I'm a working writer with a family to support who, to make a buck, has written for such TV series as The Rifleman, Have Gun will Travel, Wanted Dead or Alive. Having seen these shows via reruns, they react.Tearing up my speech to applause, I invite questions about any aspect of my life that interests them.Silence.Then a tentative hand:? What would you have become if you weren't a writer... A professional gambler. That opens the floodgates.These kids aren't interested in what my life is like since I attained a measure of success. What they want to know is how I got there,which might shed light on what they'll have to go through in whatever field they choose.Writing for Love and/or Money recounts some of the things I shared with them and many more, which there wasn't time for.FRANK D. GILROY is a playwright, novelist, television writer, screenwriter, director, and independent filmmaker. His awards include a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award, and Drama Critics Award for The Subject was Roses. "The best book about becoming a playwright since Moss Hart's Act One." WILLIAM GOLDMAN, author of The Season.