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Could you possibly have it finished for Monday? That's my deadline for recommending entries...

If you can't or are too ill don't worry about it - another Scout will do it, or I will next time around. It really is an excellent entry.

Hi! Let me just suggest (if no one else has already) that your entry might be more likely to be picked by a scout if you removed the bit at the top that says the entry is still undergoing rewrites. As entries in PR, and especially entries picked by scouts, are supposed to be finished ones, that may be deterring some people.


Mikey

It's certainly the main thing deterring me...
Seriously, I liked it a lot.

Anyway, just to add a comment or two: I disagree completely with the earlier remark that a play is easier to write than a movie - easier to get put on, perhaps but not easier to write.

And the reason I think it's harder is the one thing I think is missing from this discussion, and a key difference between stage and screen: limitations. Physical limitations on the number of different sets, and the frequency with which you change between them. Temporal limitations on (eg) costume changes. Limitations on the scale of visual effects that can be used. To have a producible play, you need to be able to get all your characters - and all your action - into a finite number of places and times, plausibly and with a minimum of exposition as to exactly why they're there. That's hard work.

Anyway, I hope you soon find the time to continue polishing this excellent and interesting article.

GVI

Hello friendly and helpful peer review people. Thank you for being so patient with me regarding my article about the writing of plays. I thought I would have it finished rather quickly, but had the bad luck of being struck ill just after the posting of the beginnings of the article, and of having stayed that way for the better part of the last 5 months. Now, having been forced to resign from my job due to this lengnthy illness I suddenly have lots of free time in which to do things like finishing long overdue H2G2 articles. I suppose that's the silver lining of that cloud. So, now I will get on the ball (when I'm feeling well enough, as that changes day to day) and finish this article once and for all. I assure you, I'll be as glad to have it finally completed as you'll be to not have to beg me to do it any longer. To Global Village Idiot (ex-Scout), thanks very much for your recent suggestion about the inclusion of the subject of theatrical limitations in my article. I will work that in somewhere before I remove the "Rewrites" heading. Right, so back to rewriting, it's about time!!

My entry "So You Want to Write a Play!" is now complete.
Sorry it took so long. Life kept getting in the way.

My entry "So You Want to Write a Play!" is now complete.
Sorry it took so long. Life kept getting in the way.

Don't you just hate it when that happens?

I love it! I love this Entry! It makes me want to become a playwright right now!

Excellent. Very complete and thorough. Well done.
I think I'll go write a play now.

Oh good, I was hoping that my article might inspire as well as inform.
(I think I'll log off now and go complete an unfinished play of my own!)

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Mikey

Yeah! Rock on!

Congratulations!