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• catalog abstract ""Here is the first and only manual for playwrights ever designed to draw directly from the wisdom of leading contemporary dramatists. Interwoven with hundreds of quotations from the author's own in-depth interview series at the Dramatists Guild, in New York City, The Playwright's Process offers a fresh and lively discussion of the indispensable ingredients of strong dramatic writing. Every essential step the writer must take to create a well-written, stageworthy play is examined and explored." "Also mining his own experience as a dramatist and a teacher of playwriting, author Buzz McLaughlin details the entire process of developing the kernel of an idea into a fully realized play - from the writer's very first jottings to the readings and workshops that lead to a professional production." "A resource for beginning and experienced writers, The Playwright's Process is a virtual guided tour of the dramatist's challenging and often mysterious creative process, chock-full of specific techniques, practical exercises, and candid observations on craft and method straight from the mouths of working, award-winning playwrights."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Learning the craft from today's leading dramatists".
• catalog contributor b11638148.
• catalog created "1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
• catalog description ""Here is the first and only manual for playwrights ever designed to draw directly from the wisdom of leading contemporary dramatists. Interwoven with hundreds of quotations from the author's own in-depth interview series at the Dramatists Guild, in New York City, The Playwright's Process offers a fresh and lively discussion of the indispensable ingredients of strong dramatic writing. Every essential step the writer must take to create a well-written, stageworthy play is examined and explored." "Also mining his own experience as a dramatist and a teacher of playwriting, author Buzz McLaughlin details the entire process of developing the kernel of an idea into a fully realized play - from the writer's very first jottings to the readings and workshops that lead to a professional production." "A resource for beginning and experienced writers, The Playwright's Process is a virtual guided tour of the dramatist's challenging and often mysterious creative process, chock-full of specific techniques, practical exercises, and candid observations on craft and method straight from the mouths of working, award-winning playwrights."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. Formulating your dramatic idea -- A few initial guidelines -- The basic dramatic ingredients -- Putting your ideas to the test -- 2. Starting your dramatic premise -- Write it out -- Flexibility is the key -- Believe it passionately -- The personal statement -- Negative and positive premises -- How the premise controls the play -- 3. Looking for ideas -- That mysterious well -- The writer's paradox -- Making the play's world your own -- Tapping into your emotional reality -- Exploring the whole idea -- The potential of settings -- The use of occasions -- Using real people as models -- Accepting the risk of self-exposure -- Keeping a journal -- Exploring hunches through writing -- The test of time -- 4. The play idea worksheet -- Getting down the basics -- Analyzing your favorite plays -- Tackling your own idea -- 5. Exploring your characters -- The short-form biography -- What's in a name? -- Your character's physical characteristics -- Your character's external world -- Your character's internal world -- Using the short form -- 6. Developing the backstory -- The long-form biography -- The rewards of patience -- Exploring with dialogue -- The character timeline -- Those unturned stones -- Taking stock, making adjustments -- 7. Creating the working drawings -- Designing a structural framework -- Finding your play in your story -- The three-act structure -- Analyzing the masters -- Inventing plot -- The dramatic intensity curve -- The plot treatment -- The spontaneity factor.".
• catalog description "8. Working in the standard format -- The importance of presentation -- The various formats -- Elements of the standard format -- Assembling the script -- Getting familiar with the format -- 9. Bringing it to life -- The art of carrot dangling -- Getting inside the play -- The architecture of conversation -- Plausible "mechanics" -- Incorporating objects -- The finesse of stage directions -- As the lights come up -- Stage right, stage left, upstage, downstage -- A sense of place -- Crying, tears, and generally losing it -- Directors who ignore stage directions -- Reality versus illusion -- Practicing the craft -- 10. Your first draft -- A title that works -- Starting out -- Discipline -- Battling that negative voice -- Keeping it to yourself -- Pushing through -- Getting some distance -- 11. Beginning the rewriting process -- Re-establishing contact -- Basic rewriting principles -- Between screen and page -- Another look at your title -- Scanning -- Which draft is this? -- Releasing your child for the first time -- The rewriting cycle -- 12. The ongoing development process -- An initial warning -- The buck stops with you -- The shift from New York -- When to start -- How to submit -- What happens at the other end -- The table reading -- The public sit-down reading -- The staged reading -- Rewriting during rehearsals -- How many readings? -- The workshop production -- The full production -- Do you need an agent? -- Developing and maintaining contacts -- The art of waiting -- The dramatists guild -- A final word -- About the playwrights.".
• catalog extent "288 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0823088332 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Back Stage Books,".
• catalog subject "808.2 21".
• catalog subject "Dramatists, American 20th century Interviews.".
• catalog subject "PN1661 .M35 1997".
• catalog subject "Playwriting.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Formulating your dramatic idea -- A few initial guidelines -- The basic dramatic ingredients -- Putting your ideas to the test -- 2. Starting your dramatic premise -- Write it out -- Flexibility is the key -- Believe it passionately -- The personal statement -- Negative and positive premises -- How the premise controls the play -- 3. Looking for ideas -- That mysterious well -- The writer's paradox -- Making the play's world your own -- Tapping into your emotional reality -- Exploring the whole idea -- The potential of settings -- The use of occasions -- Using real people as models -- Accepting the risk of self-exposure -- Keeping a journal -- Exploring hunches through writing -- The test of time -- 4. The play idea worksheet -- Getting down the basics -- Analyzing your favorite plays -- Tackling your own idea -- 5. Exploring your characters -- The short-form biography -- What's in a name? -- Your character's physical characteristics -- Your character's external world -- Your character's internal world -- Using the short form -- 6. Developing the backstory -- The long-form biography -- The rewards of patience -- Exploring with dialogue -- The character timeline -- Those unturned stones -- Taking stock, making adjustments -- 7. Creating the working drawings -- Designing a structural framework -- Finding your play in your story -- The three-act structure -- Analyzing the masters -- Inventing plot -- The dramatic intensity curve -- The plot treatment -- The spontaneity factor.".
• catalog tableOfContents "8. Working in the standard format -- The importance of presentation -- The various formats -- Elements of the standard format -- Assembling the script -- Getting familiar with the format -- 9. Bringing it to life -- The art of carrot dangling -- Getting inside the play -- The architecture of conversation -- Plausible "mechanics" -- Incorporating objects -- The finesse of stage directions -- As the lights come up -- Stage right, stage left, upstage, downstage -- A sense of place -- Crying, tears, and generally losing it -- Directors who ignore stage directions -- Reality versus illusion -- Practicing the craft -- 10. Your first draft -- A title that works -- Starting out -- Discipline -- Battling that negative voice -- Keeping it to yourself -- Pushing through -- Getting some distance -- 11. Beginning the rewriting process -- Re-establishing contact -- Basic rewriting principles -- Between screen and page -- Another look at your title -- Scanning -- Which draft is this? -- Releasing your child for the first time -- The rewriting cycle -- 12. The ongoing development process -- An initial warning -- The buck stops with you -- The shift from New York -- When to start -- How to submit -- What happens at the other end -- The table reading -- The public sit-down reading -- The staged reading -- Rewriting during rehearsals -- How many readings? -- The workshop production -- The full production -- Do you need an agent? -- Developing and maintaining contacts -- The art of waiting -- The dramatists guild -- A final word -- About the playwrights.".
• catalog title "Learning the craft from today's leading dramatists".
• catalog title "The playwright's process : learning the craft from today's leading dramatists / Buzz McLaughlin.".
• catalog type "Interviews. fast".
• catalog type "text".