Sad Playwright

Every second of every day, one new playwright becomes sad.

[Sad Playwright @sadplaywright]

Just in time for the holidays: A #sadplaywright advent calendar where each day you pull out a new rejection letter!

[zoe kazan @zoeinthecities]

so much of writing *for me* is just like: build a house. take it apart. use some of the raw materials to build a new house. rearrange the rooms. retile the whole thing. repaint the whole thing. decide you're too tired to tear it down. chop off a third of the house. live in it.

[Elisabeth Giffin Speckman @EGSpeckman]

Requiring playwrights to attend a performance w/o comp tix is a hidden submission fee. Discuss.

[The Broadway Beat @BwayBeatNews]

Playwright Rejected from Canceled Summer Theatre Festival

(https://t.co/bn7Xj8TiVA) #TheBroadwayBeat

[Jeremy O. Harris @jeremyoharris]

Someone I hooked up with in college decided to send me this tonight. I love the internet.

[MariselaTreviñoOrta @MariselaTOrta]

I used to think the worst anxiety a playwright had was "will I ever have another idea (for a play)?"

Now I know it's, "will I be able to wrestle this play to the ground and finish it?"

[Sudi Green @Sudi_Green]

Writing is re-writing the first three pages 100 times and then the last page is like "pee poo beep beep they sing happy birthday and ride dick-shaped cars into the ocean"

[Annette Storckman @astorcks]

Rejections for things you forgot you applied to are worse because it’s like a stranger walked up to you to randomly say you’re trash.

[Sad Playwright @sadplaywright]

Welcome #sadplaywright KERRI KOCHANSKI from Greater Philadelphia..#newplay https://t.co/OUV554VPhc

[The Nuge @thenugespeaks]

"I think playwriting is too difficult and I don't ever think I could write a play." -- Stephen Sondheim

[The Nuge @thenugespeaks]

When you make one small change in your script. #newplay

[catherine weingarten @sarahkaneissexy]

Yayyy rejection playwright bingo #rejectioncarnival i lost!

[Alison Carr @AlisonCarr_]

HIM: "Are you directing the play?"
ME: "No"
HIM: "Oh, so you just wrote it"
Yeah pal, I JUST wrote it. I JUST spent weeks, months, years coming up with the story & the characters, plotting it, structuring it, writing all the dialogue, re-drafting it and the rest. JUST. Fuck you.

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

Writing is...
• opening your laptop and then closing it again
• typing with one hand because you're also eating a snack
• being ferociously in love with your story bUT ALSO terrified you do not have the skills to do it justice

[Eric Pfeffinger @epfeffin]

Receiving a rejection for something you didn’t remember you’d submitted is kind of like getting a surprise dental filling. #playwriting

[The Nuge @thenugespeaks]

“There are three rules to writing, and nobody knows what they are” - W. Somerset Maugham

[BroadwayWorld @BroadwayWorld]

A new play written by @NickJonas just had its first table read, starring @DarrenCriss and more!
https://t.co/WxE4vn3HAR

[Mac Rogers @macwrites]

Just came across an unopened pack of Moleskine notebooks I got for Christmas. If I go out in public and write in these, am I an asshole?

[michael maximoff @ismikesomething]

Queer eye but five published authors who surprise you by showing up at your door to read your manuscript and each focus on a specific element to critique (I.e. voice, characters, pacing)