In the 2000 film, Finding Forrester, Sean Connery played the fictitious author William Forrester, described by the Washington Post as “a cross between Howard Hughes and J.D. Salinger.” In the movie, Forrester supposedly wrote the great American novel Avalon Landing, his first and only book, and one that took the … Read More
Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages … Read More
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ~ Tiffany Madison You press SAVE as you glance at the sunset, just visible outside your window through flickering palm leaves. Finally! The End. … Read More
Five hundred words. Or maybe a thousand. That’s all. The Writers Alliance of Gainesville blog needs YOU to write on topics of your choice, at least those pertaining to any aspect of writing. Share your expertise, your experience, your hard-earned knowledge about writing with your colleagues. Your name might not … Read More