Frank Pike
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Born
in Blackpool, The United Kingdom
Genre
Influences
Anton Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Sondheim
Member Since
April 2023
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A compelling narrative of family strife and reconciliation written with the knowing perspective and empathy that only a writer who has thoroughly lived life can bring to his work. Galen’s Legacy digs deeper, risks more, is more its own animal � or to ...more | |
“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.”
― The Playwright's Handbook: Revised Edition
― 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.”
― The Playwright's Handbook: Revised Edition
― The Playwright's Handbook: Revised Edition

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