Today I’m riffing on Taylor Swift and how as playwrights we can find ways to write in a way that feels incredibly truthful, to the point that it feels confessional. In what ways can we better embrace the cringey, diaristic, oversharing in our early drafts, so that we can move through to subtle, nuanced insights in our polished work? Because you can’t get to sophisticated sincerity, if you don’t nurture your cringe. And if we think being emotional in our writing isn’t intellectually rigorous enough, I think we risk suffocating where a piece of writing might take us…

I reference:
‘All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)’ by Taylor Swift
‘All To Well’ by Taylor Swift
‘folklore’ studio album by Taylor Swift

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