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May 17th, Topic – 3 R’s
May 31st, Deadline for Playwright Contest
May 17th, Topic – 3 R’s of Writing: Rejection, revision, rejoicing
Rejection is part of writing. Even when you are published, projects can be rejected or an editor will request revisions. The trick is learning how to deal professionally with rejection and revision so you can leap forward to the third R - rejoicing when your book is accepted for publication.
1. What to do when your work is rejected?
2. How to look at your work with an editor's impartial eye?
3. Can the story be saved? How to know when to put the book away in the bottom drawer?
4. Know what battles to face when receiving a revision letter on a contracted book?
5. Does this really suck or is it THEM? How to trust your guts when your writing is rejected or requires revision?
6. When to turn on and turn off your internal editor?
7. How do you revise?
8. Plotting versus pantsing: How a good synopsis can save you a lot of revisions in the long run?
May 31st, Deadline for Playwright Contest
Naples Players Playwrights Contest
More Information contact Joan Laughlin venus46@naples.net
1. Playwrights this year must live in Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Glades or Hendry counties, FL.
2. They cannot be judges in the contest.
3. Plays must be nonmusical and be of 10 to 30-minute length.
4. They may be in any genre.
5. Limit of seven characters is suggested.
6. Playwrights must submit their scripts in standard play format by deadline May 31, 2008, to "An Evening of New Plays 2008", The Naples Players, 701 5th Ave., S., Naples, FL 34102-6602. A title page must be attached to the script. A separate page, giving the name of the play, the playwrights name, and all contact data, also must accompany the script, but not be attached to it, so that anonymity during the judging process, and correct records can be maintained. For the script to be returned, a self-addressed stamped envelope must be included.
7. The play must be the writer's own original work and not previously published or produced, though it may have been work-shopped or read in other locations.
8. A maximum of three Finalist plays may be recommended by the anonymous and professional judging panel in 2008.
9. Playwrights retain all rights to their Finalist plays and give rights to The Naples Players for "An Evening..." reading and a limited number of encore readings at other area venues and media.
1O. Finalist plays receive promotion including the printed program, advertising and publicity as part of the recognition of the work.
11. Each Finalist will receive an award certificate and a $100 check at "An Evening. . ." and two complimentary tickets to the event.
12. Finalists will be notified personally by phone and mail in late summer.
Background:
In the past, submissions that were adaptations of classics were not accepted as qualified, but the panel's judgment may be sought on this issue if need be. Likewise, each author is limited to one submission per year. Last year, earlier submissions that had not been chosen as Finalists were allowed to be submitted again in a later contest, limited to one such per writer. We also occasionally receive more than one submission from a single writer in a given year and in such cases the contest coordinator, with the optional advice of the panel, may contact the writer and ask which one to keep for the contest (or accept the first received, if they do not come together). Occasionally, we receive a submission of a play that the author tells us has been produced elsewhere - not as a reading, but as an out-of-book performance. These were not accepted as qualified. Every year, such questions arise, and the coordinator has sought the panel's advice to cover the immediate circumstances. Sometimes, we receive an outline or notes or otherwise incomplete work. Such entries efforts are not accepted as qualified submission.