Sheila Heti : Pure Colour
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Art of Dramatic Writing
I remember when I was 12 years old, like, or 13, going to, going to improv classes and thinking that I wanted to be a playwright. And then what he said, dramatic writing was which is you have a conflict, you know, and then it's resolved in some way; one person wants one thing and another person wants another thing. It just always seemed like I would never be able to figure that out but also something that I really had to learn and figure out and understand in order to be a great playwright. You can't convince somebody of something irrational because you say it and it's either believed or not believed. In my case with this book, you know
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