Re: RAT Re dramaturgy

[nick <nick@nickspix.com>]

Sorry Sweetie,

I got my adjectives and nouns mixed up.  I meant to say pedantic
professional, not professional pedant.  

And I don't mean to be rude, exactly.  It's just that you're not my ideal
reader.  Too many lines in your email signature.  Nothing left to speculate
on.

--nick


At 03:14 PM 11/29/00 EST, DgSWEET@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 11/29/2000 2:59:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>nick@nickspix.com writes:
>
><< I'm so glad that the professional pedant remains a part of the audience 
>here.
>  >>
>
>Thank you.  I am a professional.  I make most of my living as a playwright.  
>I am also a pedant in that, yes, people actually pay me to teach this
stuff.  
>And seem to be happy to do so since a lot of my students have done pretty 
>well.
>
>Notwithstanding the wisecracks, "playwright" is still the noun and 
>"playwriting" is still the verb most commonly used by the folks who do this.
>
>>> And that any writing without a reader or audience or production as its 
>endgame is an act of masturbation. 
>
>Or possibly an act of hope.  People write for a lot of reasons and out of a 
>lot of impulses.  As long as the work turns out well, I don't care what the 
>impulses are.
>
>I am sorry you think that to be either a professional or a pedant is 
>something worthy of snidery.  But making rude comments about others opens 
>yourself up to rude speculations about you by others.  
>
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>Jeffrey Sweet
>Resident Playwright, Victory Gardens Theatre
>Faculty, Actors Studio at the New School
>Council, the Dramatists Guild of America
>DGSweet@aol.com
>www.jeffreysweet.com
>
>