Thursday, January 21, 2016

Play Writing in Depth (Part 1: Begining)

Hey so I know I kind of did a blog like this a few weeks ago but that was a very small portion of it so I want to get more into it this time around. So for the next few blogs I am going to be going over play writing just different points of it. The first part I am going to talk about is your Beginning with your plot, setting and characters.

First off you need to know the plot of your play, this can literally be anything. Your plot can range from a serious plot like a broken family trying to come back together, or very comical like a horrible bank robbery. The main is trying to figure out what genre of play you want to write, and how serious you want it to be. The other main thing you need to do with plot is just getting your ideas down anywhere, so that if you get stuck you have ideas to fall back on.

The second thing you need to have many ideas about is your setting. Now I know you are most likely thinking that, “oh setting is really easy, everyone knows how to do that”, and technically you wouldn’t be wrong but you also wouldn’t be fully right either. See when it comes to plot you have to think about more than just the location. You also have to think about the time period, the time of day, how specific the location has to be, and etc. Now for some plays I know you can get away with just doing a very basic setting but you still should go into a little more depth with location.

And now finally characters. I know I have done many, many blogs about characters but this will hopefully be the last blog for a while that talks about them, but the reason I bring them up is because they are so important. See without ideas for your characters you really don’t have a character. Now if you want to know how to make characters go down a few blogs and you will find some of my ideas for them.


Well that is all I have on the topic of your beginning. Next on the list we move onto how to enhance your plot ideas.         

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