Faber Faber | ISBN:0571199917 | File Type: PDF, 392 pages | File size: 35.Mb | Mar. 29th, 2002
General Creative Writing: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing An accessible contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting he has struggled to find an effective playwriting handbook for his courses Although most of the currently popar handbooks have good ideas in them they all suffer from the same problems they re poorly organized are composed mostly of quirky idiosyncratic advice on how specific playwrights have gone about writing their own work and are fl of abstract theorizing on the nature of art As a rest they fail to offer any concrete information on how to construct a well written play or any usef guidelines and exercises Moreover few of these books are actually written by working playwrights Out of frustration Spencer wrote his own book The rest The laywright s Guidebook is a clear concise and engaging handbook Spencer addresses the important principles of structure includes insightf writing exercises that build upon one another explores the creative process and troubleshoots recurrent problems that playwrights actually face
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