7th March 2017 | for Creatives | writing, reaching your audience, artist's message, Stephen Gregg, playwriting |
"As a playwright, your primary responsibility is to not bore your audience. It's not to improve them. This is already an arrogant art form."
"I was used to uniting an audience with humour; this time, I wanted to unite an audience with humanity."
What is success in the 21st century? It's novels that invent their own unique form, spring from a personal place, enact a passionate intent, and prove it by reaching a broad readership. It's both great reviews and great sales. It's moving hearts and changing minds. It's winning accolades and winning the devotion of readers. It's finding a way through your fiction to convey what you alone see, yet we all come to accept as the truth.
"First rule of writing a play (or acting, lighting design, directing): Make a choice. You can always change it later."
"Conflict is all. Watching combat—dialogue back and forth—transfixes an audience like a tennis match. They won't have time to get bored."
"Skip the dull set up. The audience craves the compelling parts, even likes the quick mental work of filling in the gaps."
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