With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts.
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I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.
When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.
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