An edition of Writing your first play (1991)

Writing your first play

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An edition of Writing your first play (1991)

Writing your first play

The second edition of Writing Your First Play provides the beginning playwright with the tools and motivation to tell a story through dramatic form. Based on many years of teaching experience, this book breaks the action, dialogue, characters and conflict into separate exercises that lead naturally from one to another and become increasingly more sophisticated. Before the reader has realized it, simple ideas have taken on the shape of a play.

Topics include understanding the role action plays in drama; developing action and conflict to reveal character; writing powerful and persuasive dialogue; writing from personal experience, and how it can be both enriching and dangerous; and knowing where to start the story and what details help to develop the storyline.

Publish Date
Publisher
Focal Press
Language
English
Pages
142

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Cover of: Writing your first play
Writing your first play
1998, Focal Press
in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: Writing your first play
Writing your first play
1991, Focal Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-137) and index.

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.2
Library of Congress
PN1661 .H28 1991, PN1661.H28 1991

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 142 p. :
Number of pages
142

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1862004M
Internet Archive
writingyourfirst0000hall
ISBN 10
0240801172
LCCN
90019628
OCLC/WorldCat
22629282
Library Thing
93655
Goodreads
5709748

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