I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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.
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.