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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.2
EAN num: 9780878301881
ISBN number: 0878301887
Label: Theatre Arts Book
Manufacturer: Theatre Arts Book
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 264
Printing Date: September 28, 2005
Publishing house: Theatre Arts Book
Sale Popularity Level: 308590
Studio: Theatre Arts Book
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Chair of the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program and mentor to such theatre figures as Neil LaBute, Kenneth Lonergan, Doug Wright, and George Wolfe, Janet Neipris distills a career's worth of wisdom, advice, and encouragement in these collected lectures and essays for every playwriting student and practicing playwright. With her gift for succinct and practical instruction, she lays out the questions (and answers) that face every dramatic writer. Chapters like 'Fifty Questions to Ask About Your Play' illuminate the concrete work of writing dialogue, plot, scene, and act. Through it all, Neipris never forgets the joy of writing. This is an essential book that will coach and inspire anyone writing a play or a script.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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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