For some unknown reason, scores of playwrights believe that the concept of planning a play from the beginning to the end, with clear events and actions in each scene, with scenes that top each other in some unique way, leading to a climax, will mess with their creativity.

Mess with your creativity? Is that true? Have you ever tried it? Maybe you could write a better play?

Planning your play is a smart strategy to write a compelling play.

I often get this:

“I like to start and see where my creativity takes me.”

Why don’t you try using your creativity to plan your play and see where it takes you, so you don’t waste time being serendipitous randomly writing your play?

“Planning a play is too much work.”

Anything great in life requires work.

Do you really want to write a great play?

What would happen if we built buildings without a clear gameplan and blueprint? We would create makeshift retrofitted buildings that would never stand the test of time.

So you want your play to stand the test of time? Do you want to build a story that is compelling, involving and dramatic? (Yes, even comedies are compelling, involving and dramatic.) Do you want to write a Masterpiece?

I don’t believe that planning your play is the only way to write a play, for it isn’t. Yet, in my experience in coaching playwrights, 9 out of 10, once they finally plan their play, find writing it exhilerating, easy, and they produce some of their best work ever!

Do you want to be more productive? Write better plays with a faster and a more effective workflow?

Try planning your play with clear events and actions in each scene, with scenes that top each other in some unique way, leading to a climax. And then write it from your plan, build it, make it real and alive!

Our biggest challenge is the part of us that thinks we know it all. If we know it all, why would we want to do something new, even if we are told it could work for us? We don’t do something new for we have decided in advance without trying it, that it won’t work.

And that could be true.

But until you try something, you will never know.

As a creator and teacher, I try to be open to everything, even that planning your play won’t work for you.

And I invite you to try it out, like when you try on a new outfit at the store. You don’t know you want to buy it until you put it on, and it fits right and you look great, so you buy it.

But if you never tried it on, you would have missed out on a fantastic outfit.

Don’t miss out on a fantastic play because of something you believe to be true.

Find out.

Challenge your beliefs about your possibilities as a playwright and creator.

Challenge your beliefs every day.

For you are a lot more than you think.

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