Author: Frank Daniel Gilroy
Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Incorporated
Size: 63.25 MB
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Writing For Love And Or Money books, 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.
