The document provides tips for writing a successful play, including ensuring it has an exciting, passionate, and striking plot with an appropriate length and genre. A good play features a main character that experiences a change of fortune, either simply or through more complex means. The theme should not be revealed outright but left somewhat implicit. Additional tips include knowing the medium, keeping it concise, regularly watching movies, understanding word limits, focusing on a single setting, and remembering the key elements of time, place and action in telling a story through a play. Character motivation and effective dialogue are also important, without idealizing characters or forgetting the power of action. Overall, an effective play should have something meaningful to say about humanity.

1. WHAT MAKES
A PLAY?
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3. Why? FOUND
ATION

6. CLASSIFI
CATION
Length
Genre

7. From
there-
1.Exciting
2.Passionate
3.Striking
4.Interesting

10. TIP
If it is a simple plot, the
main character will have a
change of fortune.

12. TIP
A complex plot is even
better, where the
character produces an
effect opposite to what he
intended and gains
knowledge in that change
of fortune.

15. TIP
Do not reveal the
theme outright, it
will become
preachy.

18. IT IS! APPROPRIATENESS

20. SPECTACLE
(PRODUCTION
VALUE)

28. TIPS
1. Know your
medium.

29. TIPS
2.The less is
more often.

30. TIPS
3. Don’t write a
play if you’re not a
constant movie
goer.

31. TIPS
4. Learn the
word limitations.

32. TIPS
5. Write small.
Think of only a
singular setting.

33. TIPS
6. Keep in mind the
units of time, place
and action.

34. TIPS
7. Some successful
plays starts in the
middle.

35. TIPS
8. Always remember that
motivation is the key to
strong characterization.

36. TIPS 9. Test your dialogues.

37. TIPS
10. Avoid idealizing
characters and know your
characters as well.

38. TIPS
11. A good play says
something to humanity
about humanity.

39. TIPS 12. Never forget the
effectiveness of action.