Hello! Welcome to my weekly newsletter!
Enjoy a dose of my playwriting process,
writing confessions, and all the mess in between.
You have absolutely no idea how many formats I’ve gone through all my life.
I’ve done:
Microsoft Word templates
Celtx
WriterDuet
Final Draft
Copied formats from friends and mentors
But I never really found one that truly worked.
Not for me. Not for my aspirations.
I Want to Publish — Eventually
Most playwriting formats are space-consuming.
Great for rehearsals, but terrible if you ever want to publish your script as a book.
And I do.
One day, I want to see my play beautifully laid out in an actual book.
So I began experimenting.
Tweaking. Writing. Rewriting.
Reformatting.
(Read: furiously typing on my keyboard at 2am.)
The Format I’m Sharing With You
I’ve finally landed on something that works for me.
And maybe it’ll help you too — if not in writing, then in finding your own format.
Here’s what it does:
Maximises space (less pages, more punch)
Still gives actors space to take notes and doodle (guilty!)