Playscripts is a play licensing service, which has published playwriting advice from some of their writers, as follows:
“Don’t be afraid to let your play suck. Let the play stink up the joint. Let it be miles from perfect. Then, very systemically, go about the business of fixing it all.” —Michael Mejias
“The most important thing for playwrights starting out — artistically and professionally — is to find your people. Whether that’s a writers lab, a group of actors, a theatre company, or the co-workers at your survival job, they will keep you alive and help you stay interested in your craft when no one else is. I have a long way to go as an artist and a professional, but I never could have gotten as far as I did without the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, The Lark, my YSD family, all the actors I write for over and over again, and all the other playwrights who share and exchange early sketches and drafts with me even when it’s garbage. I have them to thank for everything.” —A. Rey Pamatma
“In my first playwriting class my very brilliant teacher Sam Marks told me that my own resistance to writing meant that I might have something to say. I suppose before that I thought that my resistance meant that I was not suited to writing. To be told that it might mean the opposite gave me a great sense of permission and freedom. So my advice would be not to disqualify yourself from writing based on your resistance. To consider it as fuel. Or as a signal that it’s covering something quite loud that’s actually not that far under the surface and it’s waiting for you!” —Dipika Guha
“It’s OK to fail, just don’t be boring.” —Jen Silverman