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Asking the Best Questions of Your Writing (ACE Blog 2)
This is the second blog of ten that will appear between now and early July, as a public engagement element of a funded playwriting project supported...
Finding Your Writing Voice (ACE Blog 1)
This is the first blog of ten that will appear between now and early July, as a public engagement element of a funded playwriting project...
One is The Hardest Number (of characters)
I saw two one-person plays this week – both powerful pieces of writing full of layers and complexity, dynamic journeys for their characters and the...
The Fight to Write
Imagine, if you will, a Rocky VI-type scenario. Writer, heavily-bearded whilst on retreat in Russian tundra, pins photograph of imagined writing...
A Story to Connect Us All: The Present Mythology
This post first appeared on the Lane's List in January 2015. I’ve picked up my viewing of the classic interviews The Power of Myth with...
If You Don’t Love Your Content, Make Something Else
This post originally appeared on the Lane's List in January 2015. This week I worked with seventeen different theatre companies across two...
The Child’s Imagination: Think Laterally, Not Literally
This post originally appeared on the Lane's List in January 2015. I’m continuing with a recent child-inspired line of enquiry by following a...
Making the Hard Choice: Following Your Writing Heart
This post originally featured in Lane's List in Winter 2014. I’ve been dillying and dallying recently about whether or not to take up some...
Wonder, Ownership and Children’s Theatre
This post originally featured in Lane's List in January 2015. I was fortunate enough at the start of 2015 to be part of Travelling Light...
Why Your Play Can’t Look ‘Just As You Imagined’
I've lost count of the number of writers who've asked me the question 'how do I ensure the play looks and sounds exactly as I imagined in my...
What’s it All About? The Freedom in Multiple Meanings
This post originally featured in Lane's List in November 2014. I was in a panel discussion last year which took as its starting point the...
Writing Without Writing – When Not to Put Pen to Paper
This post originally featured in Lane's List in November 2014. I spent five days in late November 2014 down in Dartington in Devon, on one...
Top 10 Things I Learned From Theatre in 2014
This post originally appeared on the Lane's List in December 2014. In keeping with the myriad of ‘reviewers top 10 theatre picks’ from the...
Writer or Artist? Why Labels Might Mean Missing Out
This post originally featured in Lane's List in Autumn 2014. How often do you delete or scroll over an opportunity for work or training that...
Why Lane’s List is Going from Free to Fee
I began Lane’s List in 2006 as an informal ad-hoc thing, to help keep the writers I’d met via universities and workshops abreast of the...
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Information, training and opportunities for UK playwrights
Lane’s List is totally brilliant. An invaluable resource. I wish that it had existed when I was just starting out when getting yourself involved in anything and everything is so important to getting your foot on the ladder.