Even if you’re not a professional writer, you may secretly — or not so secretly — harbor the ambition of writing a novel or a memoir. Whether it’s a rollicking good tale that you’ve created in your imagination, or it’s your own exciting/tragic/hilarious life story, you feel you have a tale to tell. And, if you actually sit down to write the book, you will quite likely reach a point when you decide to write your story as a screenplay. Continue reading “So You Think It’s Easier To Write A Screenplay Than A Novel?”
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DAY 2: Palm Beach Book Festival
Burt Reynolds tells packed house about his loves, fleeting fame and why he loves living in Jupiter, FL.
Burt Reynolds has quite a morning at the Book Festival. It starts out with a Q&A with Scott Eyman, and Burt talks openly about Hollywood, fleeting fame and two loves of his life. He chokes up a little talking about Sally Field, and he talks about his Mensa wife whom he doesn’t name (but who is surely Loni Anderson) and whom he says was brilliant and beautiful, but spent one-and-a-half hours taking off her makeup at bedtime. And then another half-hour “putting on something else on her face… by which time…” Burt pauses, and pretends he’s gone to sleep. Continue reading “DAY 2: Palm Beach Book Festival”