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| Joined: | Sat Jun 10th, 2006 |
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I got to thinking today about the first neighborhood we lived in when first coming to Denver twenty years ago. We were talking about a postal/packaging store, my mate and I, on the corner about a block from our apartment and wondering if it was still there in the old neighborhood. It was a place I visited frequently to send out typewriter generated scripts.
The only leads I had in those days were from the DGA. They didn't have a magazine then, only a monthly newsletter. I knew of nowhere else to go. I guess there were computers back then, but I didn't have one and it would be years more before I would. And when I did get one, it would be even more years before going online. Now we can surf this great web of information and get our plays out all over the world. The latest and greatest development is that more and more theatres are accepting our scripts via email. What a wonderful world we playwrights now live in.
What a wonderful world we live in where we playwrights can come together and support one another and deliver each of us from the isolation of working in the pre-computer darkness. Having gone through that isolation, having never known another playwright for years, having had not enough self-esteem to even call myself a playwright, it is a joy now to be part of a world-wide community. It is liberating.
When we had our little "submission sprees" you were encouraged to share the opportunities and all the information you could gather about them to help others with their submissions. In doing so we created a larger base of information that was helpful--not only to ourselves--but also to our fellow members who didn't participate. What was important, really important, was that we were playwrights helping playwrights. It is empowering to care.
What I want to impart from all this rambling is that no one will help us but each other--that is our selves. We have all chosen, to one degree or another, to apply our lives and talents to the craft, and sometimes Art, of playwriting. We have that in common. My challenge to each and every one of you is to post every opportunity you come across for the benefit of your fellow playwrights. Start a chain reaction. Be grateful for having a place in cyber space to come and commune with other playwrights. Help each and all of us along the road by sharing. Share those opportunities and thereby show us your love.
Best,
Edd