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1. Work hard. That sounds so obvious, but really - work hard! (Verity Laughton)
2. Offstage events and characters that tell stories should ring alarm bells. I like the most important moments to happen in front of the audience. (Tommy Murphy)
3. Write what you love, what fascinates you. You're going to spend a long time on each project so make sure it really grips you. (Caleb Lewis)
4. Learn how to take in feedback. There's a balance to be struck between taking on board everything that's said to you, and rejecting it all out-of-hand. It's important to be able to sift for those comments that are aligned to the play you're writing, rather than some other play. (Hilary Bell)
5. Be open. Trust. Question (Catherine Ryan)
6. Keep going. Don't give up. Don’t keep trying to make it perfect as you go.... get to the end, leave it for a while, go back .... and start to make it better. (Michael Gow)
7. Do as many writing workshops as you can. (Lally Katz)
8. Don't be frightened of what anyone thinks – the best work is dangerous and speaks the unspeakable. However if there are good intelligent people with constructive criticism - let them in. (Catherine Zimdahl)
9. Make sure you know the function of every scene, every piece of dialogue... Strip your writing back until everything in it … helps to drive your play forward. (Jane FitzGerald)
10. If you can shut your eyes and you don't miss out on anything, then it is a play for radio, not for the stage. (Jane Harrison)
11. Get some acting experience; you will enhance your characters and you will also write characters that actors will love playing. (Suzie Miller)
12. Sometimes stop…think to yourself - can I make this (scene) more exciting? Less cliched? Even more shocking? (Louis Nowra)
13. In the editing stage try and cut your dialogue sentences in half - allowing the action and the subtext to communicate. (Jane Harrison)
14. Be part of the theatre community. Be part of the writing community. Don't be shy with directors - it's an exciting relationship and one that really can get your work out there. (Suzie Miller)
15. Sometimes I’ve put plays aside for long periods of time... This is painful but it can be very useful. After a long break, you can see the play more clearly, let go of the bad ideas and make it much better. (Debra Oswald)
16. Read your writing, out loud, to yourself, all the time…Act it out. You teach yourself to hear the play and use a different part of the brain. (Tom Wright)
17. Take any opportunity (short of exploitation) to see your work performed. There's nothing more valuable for a playwright, no faster nor surer way to see what works in front of an audience. If opportunities don't present themselves, create them. (Hilary Bell)
18. Get your play on, even if you have to do it yourself... Even if you don't think it will be any good, it's much, much, much better than not doing it at all. And it might not be good. But the next one will be better. (Lally Katz)
19. I hear criticisms of writing such as "it was too clever" and "too sentimental";. I also hear people regard "exposition" as a crime. So I think these three crucial aspects of writing have to be covert successes. (Tommy Murphy)
20. Don't be precious. Don't expect perfection. Don't give up. (Donna Abela)