Tag: drama writing

• An Approach to Drama Writing Part III: Use your image to create your characters …

  Part III in my short series about writing drama – but much is applicable to any type of writing. Part I: Be Fearless! HERE! Part II: Writing Starts in the Mind HERE! Part III: Use Your image or scene to create your characters or vice versa In part two I talked about using a phrase or an…

  sassevn

  March 17, 2015

  Writing Process

  approaches to drama writing, brainstorming writing, creating characters, drama writing, writing

• A Post on Future Posts

  I just noticed that I have 42 drafts under posts on my blog. Most of them are just a few words long or even just a title. That’s how I do things – write down titles which could become future posts. And now look at this, the future titles themselves have become a post. Mind-boggling,…

  sassevn

  January 31, 2015

  Indie Author

  article titles, blogging, creative writing, drama writing, post writing, writing article titles

• Insight into Writing My New Show (1)

  I’d like to take a couple posts to expound a little on the writing of my new show: “For All Generations.”  The show is a series of dramatic sketches which portray a variety of generational themes – families – grandparents – sacrifice for country. Let me start with my favorite piece of the bunch, a…

  sassevn

  November 9, 2014

  10-minute play, drama, Indie Author

  drama, drama producing, drama writing, generational stories, malaysia theatre, PenangPAC, RLT Players, theatre, theatre arts

• What’s different about writing drama? (Coming Soon! My new show!)

  I love writing novels. I wish I could do it full time for a living. But for pure enjoyment, what I do with drama probably tops novel-writing. Most likely it is the case because with drama I get to take my work and put it into production right away. Plus I get to collaborate with…

  sassevn

  November 8, 2014

  Current Events, drama

  collaboration in drama, drama, drama writing, novel writing, writing for the stage

• Don’t Take Good Ideas for Granted. Plan ahead!

  Have you ever been in such a good creative patch that you are overflowing with ideas and not enough time to accomplish them all? Relish those days. That’s what I keep telling myself. I am currently overflowing with ideas. I’ve started to map out my drama writing 13 months in advance because I’m producing too…

  sassevn

  November 4, 2014

  Indie Author, Writing Process

  brainstorming, drama writing, novel writing, writing ideas, writing procedures, writing process, writing topics

• RLT – The Little Group Near to My Heart

  I’ve teaching, directing, and writing drama for a number of years now. I guess it’s been seven and a half years. I’ve learned so much – mostly that I don’t know much about acting or directing. (On the writing part I think I’m okay.) I get to work with young high school actors – some…

  sassevn

  October 29, 2014

  10-minute play, drama

  drama, drama writing, Penang Performing Arts Centre, performing arts, playwright, theatre, writing

• Revisiting an Old Script and Loving It

  Kerry Livgren, composer and musician for the 70s progressive rock group Kansas (and always one of my favorites – check out Proto-Kaw), once said that he loved the opportunity to re-record a track that he had written. In essence, anyway that it can be improved he loved to do it. Well, I made a determination…

  sassevn

  August 1, 2014

  drama, Writing Process

  composing, drama writing, editing writing, improving writing, Kansas, Kerry Livgren, musical writing

• Slicing and Dicing the Script

  The musical I’m directing is three weeks away from opening. Today we had our first mega-rehearsal – 8 hours which included two complete run-throughs from start to finish. I know now that I had been over-optimistic about the musical’s length. I was confident that we could get it done in 2.5 hours which would have…

  sassevn

  May 3, 2014

  drama, Writing Process

  drama writing, editing, play-writing, writing process

• Our Passion is Creativity

  I’ve been putting together the program for my RLT PLAYERS performance coming up in two weeks, and I came across this paragraph which I wrote for a program two years ago. I can’t seem to get away from it and put it in every program that I write – simply because it’s still true. So…

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  November 9, 2013

  Current Events, drama

  creativity, drama production, drama writing, RLT Players

• Discipline + Imagination + Bravery = ?

  Here’s another connection between acting and writing. I found this equation in one of my drama books: Discipline + Imagination + Bravery = Success! I couldn’t have said it better for either acting or writing. Let’s break this down a little bit: DISCIPLINE An actor has to be disciplined in putting in the homework to…

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  May 14, 2013

  drama, Writing Process

  acting, bravery, drama writing, imagination, successful writing, writing, writing process