Stop Overthinking. Just F*cking Write Already!
The ideas won't show up until you do.
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Hello! Welcome to my weekly newsletter!
Enjoy a dose of my playwriting process,
writing confessions, and all the mess in between.
You’re not blocked.
You’re overthinking.
And yes, I’m calling you out — with love, but also with urgency.
I know you’re probably sitting there and thinking:
“Is this idea good enough?”
“Will people get it?”
“Should I be writing something more meaningful?”
“Do I even know how to write plays anymore?”
STOP.
You are not a robot trained for perfection.
You’re a human being with something to say.
And the only way to say it… is to f*cking say it.
Your job isn’t to write something perfect.
Your job is to write something.
It can be messy. Awkward. Dramatically mid.
And let’s be real. Your first draft WILL BE SHIT.
No one is grading your first draft.
And if they are, get new friends.
You cannot edit a blank page.
You can edit a terrible one. So write a terrible one.
Don’t chase perfection, revel in imperfection.
“Don’t get it right, get it written.”
- Roy Williams, British Playwright
Here’s what helps me:
Start with one line. Any line. Let it go nowhere.
Write a scene that doesn’t belong yet — just to hear the voices.
Write monologues, dialogues, write nonsense. Get it out of your system.
Set a 10-minute timer and write like no one’s watching. Because no one is.
Don’t even tell anyone you’re writing if you don’t want to.
Because newsflash: no one gives a shit.
Some of your best ideas will only reveal themselves in motion.
Not in the outline. Not in some post-it notes.
In the doing.
So get off your hypothetical, intellectual, perfectionist high horse and
Just. F*cking. Write.
The page isn’t judging you.
So stop judging yourself.
Love you! lol.