Cheryl Martin is a director, but started out as writer. She was writer-in-residence at Oldham Coliseum and Contact Theatre amongst others.
She has since been an Associate Director for New Writing at Contact, a director-in-residence at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre and directed at the Royal Exchange. To read Cheryl’s biography, click here.
If you want to work a bit on your characters, start right here.
To get the best out of it, don’t do all three parts at once. Pause for a day or a week in between, to let your ideas settle. Then come to them with a fresh mind.
FIRST THINGS FIRST
The really first thing is that there is no right or wrong way to write anything. I use the word ‘should’ a lot in this tutorial, but that’s to make it easier to read. I don’t believe in ‘should’s’.
There are no absolutes, no magic bullets – but there are things that can help. You can try what I suggest here. Use it only if it helps open up possibilities for you. That’s what it’s meant to do.
Love the digging deeper to uncover wants and needs.