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YouTube is an excellent place for playwriting resources and education. I’ve posted Paula Vogel before, and here’s another hour-long craft lecture by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, this one from the Sewanee Writers Conference. Image by KoalaParkLaundromat from Pixabay.
The sequel to The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective, Breaking Out of Bedlam, will feature a locked room mystery … specifically, a woman disappears from a locked room. According to John Dickson Carr, a master of the genre, there are seven solutions to a locked room murder. Robert Adey expanded Carr’s list considerably. In his book Locked Room Murders. Adey identifies …
Did you know you can read all of my full-length plays on the New Play Exchange? You have to create a free account, but then you can download all the plays in pdf format and read them, for free! There’s lots of playwrights (more than 10,000) on the Exchange, many of whom have written only ten minute plays, in case …
Ronald Knox was a mystery writer in the early part of the 20th century who belonged to the Detection Club, a society peopled by such legendary mystery writers as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, G. K. Chesterton, and E. C. Bentley. Among his novels: The Viaduct Murder, Double Cross Purposes, Still Dead. Knox was also a Catholic priest, which is perhaps …
“Bystanders” will premiere in October 2020. Here’s the description of this two-hander: BYSTANDERS, a new drama In the wake of a tragic and senseless act of gun violence, two women strive to connect despite their grief and guilt. Zayne is determined to learn if Hannah could have foreseen the shooting, or even prevented it. Hannah is fed up with clichéd …
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 …
I subscribe to a weekly newsletter by James Clear, author of Atomic Habits. I enjoy the contents and find them valuable. This edition, he gives instructions on how to be miserable: How to Be Unhappy: -stay inside all day-move as little as possible-spend more than you earn-take yourself (and life) too seriously-look for reasons why things won’t work-always consume, never …
What is #WrAP2020? WrAP (or write a play) is the annual January playwriting challenge put on by London Playwrights. Those who take part receive inspiration and support directly to their inbox throughout the month of January, with the aim of creating a first draft within a month. You can find out all about it here. Who can take part? Anyone …
I read somewhere that women in arts and media who express gratitude are buying into some sort of gendered norm that’s holding us back. But for me, there is no room to claim I have accomplished everything I have all by myself. Certainly not in theatre. So Thanksgiving is not a particularly special day for me. It has complicated and …
Winter Miller is a playwright, writer, activist, and Dramatists Guild Representative for New York City. Her plays include No One is Forgotten and In Darfur. I really like her advice regarding an important aspect of playwriting: “It’s important to breathe as you write. When you hold your breath, you hold back your feelings. Think about it—when you’re terrified, you hold …