by PSH | Jul 14, 2023 | play submission advice & tips, playwriting advice, playwriting tips
One way to help make your play a success is to write it in an “actor-friendly” way. In other words, to write your script in a way that makes it easier for your actors to do their job well. To that end, there’s one big mistake that many... by PSH | May 8, 2023 | play submission advice & tips, playwriting advice, playwriting tips
In this post, I’m going to share a single word that can help improve your entire play. And not just this play, but every play you ever write. So what is this 1 amazing word? “But.” Stay with me here. This will take just a moment to explain. To do... by PSH | Apr 8, 2023 | play submission advice & tips, playwriting advice, playwriting tips
Questions are a powerful thing. Questions engage the mind. People are drawn to questions. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that audiences love a play with a powerful MDQ (major dramatic question). Your MDQ could be anything, but frequently it’s some variation... by PSH | Mar 13, 2023 | play submission advice & tips, playwriting advice, playwriting tips
After our last month’s post on protagonists, we had someone write in with this astute observation: “If you think about it, the strength and ‘flavor’ of all characters you create is in the dialogue… Perhaps the criticism I have heard most... by PSH | Jan 12, 2023 | play submission advice & tips, playwriting advice, playwriting tips
Storytelling is one of the oldest art forms known to man. We’ve been telling stories as long as we’ve had the language to do it. So it should come as no surprise that, by now, we have a pretty solid understanding of the most important narrative elements.... by PSH | Dec 9, 2022 | play submission advice & tips, playwriting advice, playwriting tips
Without a doubt, the #1 most common question that people ask writers is: “Where do you get your ideas?” We get them, of course, everywhere. From snippets of overheard dialogue. From images of a forboding landscape. From a relationship dynamic between two...