hey bob jude, are there any good play writing classes around?
Well, I hope this is helpful. I never took a play writing class and don t feel that classes benefit beginning writers. And the many people I know who do/did take classes usually don’t finish work in them. I have a good friend who has been in [famous playwright name omitted] class for 2 years and still hasn’t finished the play he started working on in NY Play Development; in fact he tore his script up in self-disgust and may never write again. My perhaps jaded perception of my amigos collective experiences is that most teachers tend to force a particular aesthetic on a writer and that this forcing principle only works if the established writer s personal aesthetic is harmonious with the student writer s potential aesthetic. So if you can find a playwright who already writes the way you want to write, and they happen to be teaching a class, that would be the way to go. But remember that you as a beginning writer are fragile and need to preserve your inner desire to write at all costs. Te
