On Writing and the film "Finding Forrester"

It's amazing how certain images from films, novels,poems or paintings stay with you. I remember seeing the film "Finding Forrester" where a former prize winning author helps a young basketball player and aspiring writer to escape from his life in the Bronx, New York. The former author watches the young man at the typewriter and he's just sitting there waiting for inspiration. "What are you doing man, the first rule of writing is to write. First you write from your heart then you write with your head." So he taps away at the typewriter just putting in his immediate thoughts as they come to him and after he can proofread or amend if necessary. It's the problem with some writing nowadays as the writer has intellectually poured over every word the finished article is in danger of becoming artificial and stilted or even worse: unreadable.

So thanks for the prompt from the filmaker(s) of  "Finding Forrester." I'm going to check now to see if the film was based on a novel.