How to Submit a Play to a Contest
Submitting plays to contests is often a bit more haphazard than literary agent submission but it is wise to also handle these with care. Form Cover Letters: When submitting a play to a playwriting contest you still want to put your best foot ... [... more]
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Playwriting: The First Workshop
 An Excellent Book for the Aspiring Playwright: This book is amazing. Anyone who is interested in writing plays must read this book. The author walks you through the steps of playwriting and gives you critiqued examples to help illustrate her lesson. A [... more]
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How to Write a Stage Play
Do you long to write a script for a stage play? Is it your heart's desire to one day see your work performed on stage? Are you daunted by the technicalities of the whole process? What follows is a guide to "professional" script formatting to [... more]
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How to Avoid Writer's Block and Produce a Vast Body of ...
If you've ever had a writing moment where you just couldn't gather your thoughts clearly enough to put pen to paper, then it is very likely that you were suffering from what most writers refer to as writer's block. While writer's block is the ... [... more]
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How to Write a Great Script for a Movie or Play (For Sharon)
If you are a playwright or are in any position where you would have to write a script for something, with a dialogue, actions, a setting, and a plot, you may want to read this article. Whether you're using a pen and paper or a computer, you need ... [... more]
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How to Interpret a Play from a Literary Perspective
So, you're taking a literature class and you have to write a paper. But here's the catch: you're analyzing a play, not a novel. Maybe you've done this before or maybe you have but didn't earn the A+ you wanted. Never fear; literary advice is ... [... more]
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How to Become a Playwright
Playwrights, also known as a dramatist, do not need a college degree to write plays. Students of playwriting, tend to sometimes lose creativity in writing drama because of so much detail on the formula of writing. Real life situations and timing ... [... more]
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How to Produce a 10-Minute Play
One of the first ways for people to break into playwriting and directing in New York City is by participating in many of the theatre festivals that happen all through the year in New York City and all through the summer months all around the ... [... more]
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The Art and Craft of Playwriting
If you're mired down in your own play, script, or novel: I checked this book out from the library, but now I must buy my own copy to keep. I've been having problems developing second act story complications without completely deconstructing my original [... more]
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The Art and Craft of Playwriting
If you're mired down in your own play, script, or novel: I checked this book out from the library, but now I must buy my own copy to keep. I've been having problems developing second act story complications without completely deconstructing my original [... more]
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The Elements of Playwriting
CORE TEXTBOOK FOR THE SERIOUS PLAYWRIGHT: I am a Midwestern physician by day and fledgling playwright by night. One year ago I decided to take an idea to paper and wrote my first play. The story was clear in my mind so the writing went easy. Within six [... more]
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Spaces of Creation: The Creative Process of Playwriting
Developing a New Style of Teaching Playwriting: The writer of a play, looking at the first blank piece of paper has to first create a world. It is a world that will exist only in the mind of the audience, but it is a world none the less. He has to start [... more]
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