When writing a short play, you will have no time to 'set up' the story. It's only ten to twelve minutes long, remember? Rather, think of it as walking into the middle of the story; more like a scene...but in this case it must have a beginning, middle, and end, all in roughly ten-twelve minutes.

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When discussing playwriting, I often tend to characterize it as screenwriting's "down-to-earth older sister." The primary reason for this is the pure freedom of playwriting, something that at first left me feeling confused as a screenwriter when I took my first playwriting class. "What do you mean I can do whatever I want and that there are no rules?" I asked my professor. Schedule