On Writing
Des Manderson
In some ways, choosing what to include and what to leave out seems to me intrinsic to the discipline of the play in a way that is quite different from the novel.
Peter Polites
It’s a craft. Learn how to craft a voice. Start small. Little poems and short stories. Seek a mentor. Listen to them. Don't get upset when they critique your work. Worse things will happen when you get published.
Dylan Van Den Berg
Playwriting is the most collaborative of writing disciplines; on stage, an audience is seeing a version of your work that’s been filtered ... The relationship between writer and consumer is different – more distant? Less immediate? But still exhilarating.
Nigel Featherstone
The only way to write a story is to put a word down on a page, then another word, then another, until a sentence appears.
Maura Pierlot
As writers we often play detective – probing, investigating, discovering, each step bringing us closer to the truth. But what if the subject of your investigation is mysterious, surly, contradictory and often inaccessible?