Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.
I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.