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Anton Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Sondheim

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Frank Pike has written books and articles on theater and playwriting. His plays, including The Harry Plays and Smaller Heartaches (which won the Twin Cities Kudos Award for Best New Play) have been produced across the country, including New York, Boston, San Diego and Minneapolis. He has taught playwriting at Middlebury College, the University of Minnesota, The Playwrights' Center and The Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. His short stories have been published in literary magazines such as Boulevard. He has received creative writing grants from the Mellon Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Bush Foundation and McKnight Foundation. ...more

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“If you're a fiction writer, consider reading the first half of The Playwright's Handbook, available on Kindle and as a trade paperback at Amazon. The various exercises on observation skills, sense memory (culled from acting), POV, plot development, setting exploration, character interaction, harnessing the power of the unresolved conflict, conflict and the disrupted ritual, etc., all work well for the fiction writer, as I've been told by a number of writers over the years. Many of the exercises are based on what I've learned taking and teaching drama, literature and creative writing classes. The exercises proved helpful when I moved from playwriting to fiction, including writing the stories in Floating World: Tales of Unrequited Love in '90s New York. My fiction has also been published online and in literary magazines such as Boulevard.”
Frank Pike, The Playwright's Handbook: Revised Edition

“If you're a fiction writer, consider reading the first half of The Playwright's Handbook, available on Kindle and as a trade paperback at Amazon. The various exercises on observation skills, sense memory (culled from acting), POV, plot development, setting exploration, character interaction, harnessing the power of the unresolved conflict, conflict and the disrupted ritual, etc., all work well for the fiction writer, as I've been told by a number of writers over the years. Many of the exercises are based on what I've learned taking and teaching drama, literature and creative writing classes. The exercises proved helpful when I moved from playwriting to fiction, including writing the stories in Floating World: Tales of Unrequited Love in '90s New York. My fiction has also been published online and in literary magazines such as Boulevard.”
Frank Pike, The Playwright's Handbook: Revised Edition

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