Comments on: Playwriting and stuff http://blankslate.net/blog/2008/04/10/playwriting-and-stuff/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:47:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ben http://blankslate.net/blog/2008/04/10/playwriting-and-stuff/#comment-49 Ben Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:25:07 +0000 http://blankslate.net/blog/2008/04/10/playwriting-and-stuff/#comment-49 Haha. :) There's certainly no formula, but it's kind of hard to write about death convincingly when I haven't really lost anyone. You can do it, yes, but it's harder -- you have to really pay attention to how other people deal with it, you have to talk to them and see what they're going through (and even then you have to translate what they say because they probably don't know themselves what they're feeling), you have to reconstruct everything based solely on observation and your imagination. Which <i>is</i> possible. It's just a heck of a lot easier to get it wrong that way. :P Haha. :) There’s certainly no formula, but it’s kind of hard to write about death convincingly when I haven’t really lost anyone. You can do it, yes, but it’s harder — you have to really pay attention to how other people deal with it, you have to talk to them and see what they’re going through (and even then you have to translate what they say because they probably don’t know themselves what they’re feeling), you have to reconstruct everything based solely on observation and your imagination. Which is possible. It’s just a heck of a lot easier to get it wrong that way. :P

]]> By: rikker http://blankslate.net/blog/2008/04/10/playwriting-and-stuff/#comment-48 rikker Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:07:03 +0000 http://blankslate.net/blog/2008/04/10/playwriting-and-stuff/#comment-48 <i>Which isn’t to say that those things are necessary to being a good writer...</i> Ah, but you said you wanted to write something <i>great</i>. Somebody do Ben a favor and randomly cut the brakes of the car of someone he knows. :P Just kidding. I don't think there's a formula for literary greatness. Which isn’t to say that those things are necessary to being a good writer…

Ah, but you said you wanted to write something great. Somebody do Ben a favor and randomly cut the brakes of the car of someone he knows. :P

Just kidding. I don’t think there’s a formula for literary greatness.

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