Waiting for an interview in purgatory: on originality.
How do you avoid writing a boring, uninteresting play?
I read more than 300 play submissions during our 2018 Little Wonder Radio Play competition and there were an astonishing number that fell into one of the three types:
Some has an interview and discovers it isn’t what it seems!
Someone is in a strange place and discovers they are/were actually dead!
And worst of all…
Someone is waiting for something… but nothing happens!
But there have been some great plays like this!
All three of these story formats can (and have) be very successful – but they’re also very dangerous. In this article I’m going to talk about why your play about something waiting to be interviewed to get into somewhere only to discover they are actually dead is BOOOORING, and what you can do to avoid writing it again.[i]
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