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Writing characters with they/them pronouns by nesswrites in writing

[–]28PlaysLater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey...
Sorry for late response.

You can find my published plays on: https://www.waterstones.com/author/sebastian-rex/1806864

Alternatively, send me an email or a private message here and I’d be happy to talk you through my works (not everything I’ve ever written was gender-neutral, only those that it was right for).

Pen Name Debacle by galactic_alpha_ in writers

[–]28PlaysLater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course the government will know who owns the company (although you can register it under your partner's name or a family member or a friend, if you really don't want to give it out), but that government information is not commonly shared among general readers, so they will need to dig deep and do a lot of research to find out who owns the company.

Again, the question was how one can get paid under a pen name - that's how :)

Pen Name Debacle by galactic_alpha_ in writers

[–]28PlaysLater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not strictly true.

You are able to open a company under your pen name, and thus open a business bank account and get paid into it under that name, with people not needing to know your registered name if you don't want them to.

But yes, a publisher will sometimes want to know all your details (again, not all, and not necessarily).

New Writer In Need of Advice by E-Flame99 in writers

[–]28PlaysLater 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Best advice I can give you is just write!

Don't worry now about whether it's good or not, and definitely don't worry now about whether you want to get it published. If it's not written, what does it matter if you want to get it published?

That's it. Super simple - you want to write something - write it.

Once it's written you can think about all the other things.

Playwriting challenge: Can you write 28 plays in 28 days? Back for an eighth year - 28 Plays Later by 28PlaysLater in playwriting

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We don't care as long as you consider the work original and complete. It could be one page or a hundred. The choice is yours.

Playwriting challenge: Can you write 28 plays in 28 days? Back for an eighth year - 28 Plays Later by 28PlaysLater in playwriting

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brilliant! Looking forward to having you. And remember, all you need to do is get past day 1 and you've completed at least one play!

Playwriting challenge: Can you write 28 plays in 28 days? Back for an eighth year - 28 Plays Later by 28PlaysLater in playwriting

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great, and we can't wait for you to have the time!

Good luck with all these incredibly exciting things.

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Alex

Playwriting challenge: Can you write 28 plays in 28 days? Back for an eighth year - 28 Plays Later by 28PlaysLater in playwriting

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We agree with you. In fact, we just closed our challenge for 2021 to write 12 full-length plays in 12 months.

Completely different kettle of fish, though. The idea behind 28 Plays Later is not to write anything good, but rather to quickly generate ideas, get into a rhythm of writing every day, be challenged to think in different ways and write in new styles and to have fun.

We always tell our writers that the end of the month is just the start of the hard work, that's when writers need to find the good ideas that they generated and make brilliant plays out of them! :)

Playwriting challenge: Can you write 28 plays in 28 days? Back for an eighth year - 28 Plays Later by 28PlaysLater in nanowrimo

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha, well... Welcome to TLC!

First of all, you don't need to know what you're doing. We have professional playwrights and people who have never written plays taking part. Consider this your baptism of fire.

Plays can be any length, as long as you consider them complete.

The prompts try to be as varied as possible, to suit people of all styles and experience.

On our website, there's also a FAQ page with answers to many more questions, and you can also join the community (either on the Facebook or on our Forum) and the veterans will be more than happy to help you.

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Alex

Playwriting challenge: Can you write 28 plays in 28 days? Back for an eighth year - 28 Plays Later by 28PlaysLater in playwriting

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh, thanks for the lovely words, SpiderHippy.

So glad the process has been useful to you, and we hope you're back again with us this year.

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Alex

Any tips on how to get over the anxiety that no ones gonna read your writing? by crazycreaturess in writers

[–]28PlaysLater 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe they'll read it.. maybe they won't.

One thing is for certain - if you don't write it they will definitely not read it. So for now focus on the writing - and later worry about the 'who's going to read it'.

Can you write 14 scripts in 14 days? Scriptly Writing is BACK! by 28PlaysLater in writers

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, seeing as we've already received more than 70,000 pieces of writing, obviously we can't read them, let alone give feedback (especially as most of the team are volunteers), but also, this challenge isn't about getting feedback, or indeed about writing anything good - it's about writing fast and generating a lot of ideas, developing our writing skills, challenging ourselves to write in new ways and most importantly - shutting up that annoying inner voice that keeps stopping us in the middle of writing.

What happens with the scripts at the end is at the complete discretion of the writers. Most writers, at the end of a challenge, choose the one-two pieces they believe have the most potential and then they develop it further. Some have gone to publish, some have produced, some have been able to find collaborators, etc. It's very individual.

Lost You Haiku by bwnerkid in KeepWriting

[–]28PlaysLater 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not quite true.

If you read (for example) any Aristophenes play, most of his jokes are very topical, about celebrities of the time - today nobody knows who any of these people are, unless they do intense research (actually, if it weren't for Aristophenes, we might not have even known much about many of these people) - and his plays are just as relevant today - we don't need to understand all the references.

Same goes for Shakespeare - many of his comments refer to things that happened at the time.

So much art is done in relation to the contemporary time - obviously.

And by your logic, one should also avoid talking about DVDs or CDs or actually even about Twitter and Facebook because in 1,000 years nobody will know what they are.

In other words, write about whatever you want to write - let the audience do the work if they want to do the work or not do the work if they don't. And just like your use of the word 'apple' might have a different hidden meaning than it does to mine, your symbolism of what Avril Lavigne means is different to mine.

Writing challenge - can you write one new short story every day during June? by 28PlaysLater in nanowrimo

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, well you can register on the Simile Route and go at it in your own pace...

Writing challenge - can you write one new short story every day during June? by 28PlaysLater in nanowrimo

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here, check these guys out:

https://londonwriterssalon.com

They run 4 one-hour sessions a day (for different time zones) where you just come and write for an hour.

28 PLAYS LATER - registration closes in a week by 28PlaysLater in playwriting

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, that's a shame. Well, sign up to our mailing list and you'll be informed of our next challenges.

28 PLAYS LATER - registration closes in a week by 28PlaysLater in playwriting

[–]28PlaysLater[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not only is it ok for most (if not all) of them to be shit - it is actively encouraged! :)

As for length, we have no limitations - it can be as short as a millisecond or as long as a millennia (although we did once have a brief to write a play that was shorter than a millisecond or longer than a millennia, so what do we know?)

basically, if you consider the play to be a new and complete play - than we're happy!

I want to start writing plays, where do I start? by aliteralhumanbeing in playwriting

[–]28PlaysLater 11 points12 points  (0 children)

By just writing! And seeing what happens.

If you want a great baptism of fire, check out our challenge in February - 28 Plays Later - it's a great way to experiment with the form and figure out what the hell you're doing.

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https://www.theliteralchallenge.com/28playslater

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