Naked Playwriting is a complete, comprehensive playwriting coursefrom developing a theme through plotting and structuring a play, developing characters, creating dialog, formatting a script, and plying methods that aid the actual writing and rewriting processes It also offers guidance on marketing and submitting play scripts for both contests and production, getting an agent, protecting ones copyright, and working with directors, actors, and theater companies This new edition, in addition to fully updating the material in the popular first edition, adds detailed information on such recent develops as Zoom plays and devised theater writing nonformulaic plays that create their own structures a new emphasis on writing 10minute and oneact plays completely revised play submission guidelines that reflect a process that has wholly changed since the first edition was published an section on the nowpopular trend of moving from playwriting to TV scripting material on the growing trend toward playwrights directing their own plays and much more Wellwritten and filled with illustrative examples, it provides both innovative and triedandtrue writing techniques, sage advice from veteran writers, a short study of the major schools of dramatic thought, and pertinent writing anecdotes This oneofakind playwriting book will help both novices and working writers discover and improve their playwriting skills and get their plays produced