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To Be a Playwright |
Author: Janet Neipris
Published: 2005-09-28 |
List price: $17.95
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 Tape This To Your Wall
"To Be A Playwright" offers a unique and personal glimpse into the soul of a dedicated playwright. It suggests not only how to become a better writer, but also what it means and how it feels to be a writer--someone who sits down at a well-ordered (or supremely messy) desk, and engages in a lifetime of difficult and rewarding work. Neipris' self-revealing, funny and extremely useful essays are filled with wisdoms you'll want to copy out and tape to the wall over your own desk.
Required reading for would-be playwrights
I had flirted with the idea of writing a play for years, but it wasn't until I read this book that I found the necessary confidence and guidance to begin. Neipris anticipated all of the questions that were on my mind and in the order in which they occurred to me. I read the book with mounting excitement and admiration for her command of the subject. I took notes as I read and, by the time I was finished this slim, but potent book, I had accumulated enough good advice to stop flirting with the idea and start working. To Be a Playwright should be required reading in playwriting courses or for would-be playwrights.
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I found these essays, which address the day-to-day rules for writing a play, filled with such deep and comfortable wisdom that they can easily and usefully be taken as addressing the rules for living a good life as well. They will inform any class of young playwrights with wonderful insight into the theater; but they'll also make for a nice evening of pure pleasure in the company a warm, smart, sensible, humorous writer--whose own story of how she became a playwright is nothing short of inspiring.
The Real Thing
I've read scripts for a living and taught writing, and have been looking for a book like this to recommend. It's the perfect combination of "How To," inspiration, and encouragement. In most writing books you can't find much real content; maybe one or two nuggets buried in the many pages. This book is chock full of real helpful information. It's the real thing. It also addresses the fears and realities of life as a writer which is funny, encouraging, and inspiring.
A Writer In Paris
Books on writing (novels, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, memoirs) are a dime a dozen, and should be offered for sale for precisely that amount.
"To Be A Playwright" is a book that captures and makes specific what has been, until now, seemingly without explication; ephemeral.
It is, apart from being an engaging memoir by a successful, award winning playwright, very grounded in the ways-to convert the dream into producible,saleable marks on the page.
Forget the title and buy it for reasons and ways to write.
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