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4 Great Picture Prompts for Playwrights
Classroom Exercise

4 Great Picture Prompts for Playwrights

Ideas can come from anything and everything. But it’s always a good idea to give students a jumping off point. Picture Prompts are a great tool in a playwright’s arsenal to inspire creative...
Playwriting Exercise: Picture Prompts
Classroom Exercise

Playwriting Exercise: Picture Prompts

Location, location, location , a scene can totally be driven by where it’s set. Picture prompts serve as a great starting point. To that end, write a scene between two characters that use the...
Picture Prompt: The Unexplainable
Playwriting

Picture Prompt: The Unexplainable

Ideas can come from anything and everything. But it’s always a good idea to give students a jumping off point. Pictures are a great jumping off point for creative writing. You just have no idea...
Picture Prompt: What are they talking about?
Classroom Exercise

Picture Prompt: What are they talking about?

Ideas can come from anything and everything. But it’s always a good idea to give students a jumping off point. Pictures are a great jumping off point for creative writing. Here, we’re looking at a...
Picture Prompt: The Aftermath
Classroom Exercise

Picture Prompt: The Aftermath

Ideas can come from anything and everything. But it’s always a good idea to give students a jumping off point. Pictures are a great jumping off point for creative writing. Today we’re looking at...
Picture Prompt: Location, location, location
Playwriting

Picture Prompt: Location, location, location

Ideas can come from anything and everything. But it’s always a good idea to give students a jumping off point. Pictures are a great jumping off point for creative writing. Today we’re looking at...
The Best Writing Exercise Ever
Playwriting

The Best Writing Exercise Ever

The Best Writing Exercise ever? How can there be just ONE? Surely there’s a different “best” exercise for playwrights or novelists or poets? It’s impossible to make that claim! I am making that...
Playwriting Exercise: Happy Birthday to Me
Playwriting

Playwriting Exercise: Happy Birthday to Me

Birthdays are wonderful character development material because every human being has an immediate emotional reaction to their birthday. It could be that the character hates getting older or isn’t...
Playwriting Prompts: Western Taglines
Playwriting

Playwriting Prompts: Western Taglines

I was recently in Arizona and visited a most unique museum. It was out in the desert (I love its name – the Superstition Mountain Museum) and on the property there was a wedding chapel that had...
Playwriting Exercise: Picture Prompts
Playwriting

Playwriting Exercise: Picture Prompts

When I was in San Diego I found a lot of interesting plant life and a number of objects that just struck me as great inspiration for writing. So let’s get to it. Each picture contains a non-human...
Scene Spurs: Writing Prompts for Dramatic Depth
Teaching Drama

Scene Spurs: Writing Prompts for Dramatic Depth

The hardest part of writing for a novice is finding a place to start. The blank page intimidates as it stares back at you. A lack of inspiration is often blamed – I’m not inspired. There’s nothing...