With the new year I am beginning Part III of my series on the nuts and bolts of playwriting, inception to production. Part III will focus on the rewriting process. Remember as in all forms of writing, plays are not written, they are rewritten. I cannot stress enough the importance of that statement. There are, in reality, two different parts of the rewriting process, the private and the public.
Inhabiting a Work of Prose by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro January 2011 ". . .live inside the novel for both the writer and the reader." —Shapiro In reviews on the back of a jacket, aside from “lucid,” and “scintillating,” I...
Rose Louise, known to the world as Gypsy Rose Lee, was an enigma: a beautiful woman with an ever changing story who had more secrets hidden up her sleeve than a magician. Her history changed as often as she changed her gloves and, like the tease she was, she obscured more with each retelling. Gypsy Rose Lee was intelligent, frustrating, talented, gifted and damaged.
In past columns, I have mentioned the terms Climax and Resolution. I would like to explore these story elements in more detail along with Crisis, another important element. In my column on Rising Action, I explained how each scene builds incrementally and logically to a climactic scene. That scene, often called the obligatory scene is essential to good playwriting.
THE PLAYS THE THING Part 2: First Draft Crisis, Climax and Resolution By Dale Griffiths Stamos December 2010 Authorlink welcomes award-winning playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos as a regular monthly columnist. ". . . called the 'obligatory...
FEELINGS FIRST by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro December 2010 "Your best writing will arise from feelings." —Shapiro A daily writing practice is an important commitment to be a writer. You can’t hang out indefinitely and wait for inspiration to come....
A woman sits on a bench napping and then chatting on her cell phone. An older man in a suit stoops to read the inscription on a statue. An overweight man in jogging clothes, but too fat to jog, wanders into the park. Oliver Stone watches it all until bullets rake the park after the older man and the woman leave and the overweight jogger jumps into a hole and explodes.
Relationships with our siblings stretch, as an old saying has it, all the way from the cradle to the grave. Few bonds in life are as significant, as formative, as lasting, and as frequently overlooked as those we share with our brothers and sisters.
IN this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a galaxy-spanning empire, these are stories of lovers who must struggle against the forces of magic and fate.
THE PLAYS THE THING Part 2: First Draft Rediscovering Premise By Dale Griffiths Stamos November 2010 Authorlink welcomes award-winning playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos as a regular monthly columnist. "Premise is the one sentence statement...
