It is amazing how writing can be transformed over the years. I do not mean digressing from your writing style, but the types of writing. I usually write short stories, but now I have been concentrating on writing plays. It is different in that playwriting is more involved for the characters. I believe stage actors are exceptional because each night they have to put it all on the line. That is the way I look at playwriting.
One of my goals for 2006 is to write a full length play. I stretches my talents as a writer. The change has been good because I felt my short story writing was becoming stale. I can go back to it. I browse the fiction and literature sections of the bookstores. I took note of some of the great authors who penned other works besides their stock and trade. For example, Herman Melville is known for his classic whale story "Moby Dick". He also wrote short stories and poems. The late western writer, Louis Lamour, wrote short stories besdies his great western novels. I tried my hand at poetry and I enjoy it.
I am under no illusion that I will hit it big on Broadway, but it will be nice if it happens. I am writing plays because I love the stage and all that goes into the creating and casting of the characters. I hope to attend some plays this year. By the end of the year, I will have a full length play.
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