William Goldman

Written By Joe Mahoney

“The writing is never what takes the most time. It’s trying to figure what you’re going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene.”  

— William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade, 1983.

By Peters, Hans / Anefo - [1] Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie

William Goldman (left) with James Caan on the set of A Bridge Too Far (1976)

Joe Mahoney

Joe Mahoney is an author/publisher/broadcaster, recently retired from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where, for over more than three decades, he worked in several roles including recording engineer, producer, and several operational management roles. He currently runs Donovan Street Press Inc., an indie press based in Riverview, New Brunswick.

Joe is the author of the SF novel A Time and a Place and the memoir Adventures in the Radio Trade. He's written and produced several radio shows on science fiction for CBC Radio, and has worked as a story editor on multiple radio, television and film projects including CBC Radio's Steve the First and Steve the Second, both seasons of Canadia: 2056, Canadian author and filmmaker Susan Rodger's feature film Still the Water, and more.

https://www.joemahoney.ca
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