num_pages: 160
description: The first edition of The Playwright's Survival Guide made life simpler for writers by offering an emotional, spiritual, and commonsensical approach to the profession and, most important, to their own writing. Now Gary Garrison returns and makes life even easier with a fully updated and revised New, Improved edition of his bible for aspiring and established playwrights. Garrison's how-to guide includes inspirational stories, tricks of the trade, and reassurance, and it now incorporates new information on dramatic structure, synopsizing a play, and avoiding the perils that can sink well-intentioned staged readingsall while maintaining the candid, enthusiastic, and, sometimes, salty voice that made the first edition so popular. Demystifying the playwriting process, Garrison speaks directly to practitioners, offering the lessons of the craft in his trademark blend of honesty, humor, and horse sense. He explores the questions that playwrights face every day, Don't just make a living at playwriting. Read The New, Improved Playwright's Survival Guide and make a life of it.
language: English
title: The New, Improved Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama In Your Work and Out of Your Life
titlecomplete: The New, Improved Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama In Your Work and Out of Your Life
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Heinemann Drama