How to Write a Play/Book

How to write a play or book, yes I know it sounds so cliché and yes I know I did a very similar blog like this a few weeks ago, but after going to Thespian Festival I think this might help some people out. This blog will be what I think the basics are to writing a play/book so my ideas may or may not work for everyone.

      

      1.       Creating Plot.

Before you even start writing you need to know what you want to write about. This can be anything from sci-fi, fantasy, romance, mystery, horror, etc. but knowing what you are going to write about is probably the most important thing to do when starting to write a play.

      

      2.       Creating characters.

So since I have already done two blogs about this I don’t really feel like going into great detail on this topic but it is important. Using the techniques I talked about in my other blogs about creating characters, it is the second most important thing because without characters you don’t really have a story.

      

      3.       Creating a problem

I know this is basically creating a plot but this is going to go here for one major reason, the idea of a bad guy. Because yes it does have to deal with creating a plot, but it also has to deal with the character as well, because without the bad guy you are missing half of what makes a book/play a book/play, and yes the bad guy doesn’t have to be a person but it still can be.

      

       4.       Making Dialogue/ Lines.

Again already did a blog on this so this one is also so I am not going to go into extreme detail with this one, but dialogue is still important. Without dialogue you again still don’t have a story. You don’t have communication so nothing even really happens. Especially in play without lines there really isn’t anything there.

      

       5.       Creating a title

See this can go either here or at the beginning because you can either start with the title or end with it. It just really depends on what kind of person you are.

So that is all I have for you this time. Probably the next few blogs will be about Creating plot and Creating a title so do look for those. And finally I do hope that this can a help a few people out when it comes to writing.