Streamlining your play submission process will save vou time, stress, and energy boost vour ability to act quickly on pop up opportunities, and increase vour submission rate. #playwright #playwritingtips #writingtips #writer
A guide to listening to critique:
Those who love you tell you what they liked.
Those who don't know you give clear-eyed critique.
Those who don't like you hunt eagerly for flaws.
All feedback is good.
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Two-character scene: A wants. B opposes. Everything either one does or says is a tactic. The tactics get bigger or sneakier.
It should feel like a Jackie Chan fight.
A throws a garbage lid. B uses a fire escape. A hits B's bad knee, but B has a knife in her sock...
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In the first ten minutes the audience learns genre, the protagonist's goal, and how skilled a playwright you are.
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You don't know how to write your play until you do it. Plays are written one insight at a time. It's a time-consuming process because the third insight is often that the second one was wrong.
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Talk yourself up. No one will care that your idea won't sustain a full-length play. That's what rehearsals are for. #PlaywritingTips
Anyone can write a play. The important thing is to be able to talk about it charismatically. #PlaywritingTips
If you can't network, there's not really a lot of point. #PlaywritingTips