Writing – Marie Cooper https://www.mariecooperactor.com Norfolk Actor and Playwright Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:15:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.mariecooperactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-Logo-for-WP.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Writing – Marie Cooper https://www.mariecooperactor.com 32 32 149882402 First HighTide Writers Group Meeting https://www.mariecooperactor.com/first-hightide-writers-group-meeting/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/first-hightide-writers-group-meeting/#respond Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:21:06 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=117161 Reading Time: 2 minutesNervous about meeting experienced Playwrights, I confronted my insecurities and felt less alone as we shared inspirations, leaving me enthused and eager for our journey together.

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/first-hightide-writers-group-meeting/feed/ 0 117161 Arts Council DYCP Rejection https://www.mariecooperactor.com/arts-council-dycp-rejection/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/arts-council-dycp-rejection/#respond Mon, 30 May 2022 17:54:27 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=13101 Reading Time: 3 minutesMarie Cooper was crushed and devastated to receive an Arts Council DYCP rejection letter meaning zero funding for her ambitious 6-month writing project.

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/arts-council-dycp-rejection/feed/ 0 13101 Marie Cooper’s Writing Space https://www.mariecooperactor.com/writing-space/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/writing-space/#respond Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:30:37 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=7359 Reading Time: 3 minutesThe table on which I work, where I write, where I learn lines, where I memorise scenarios for roleplays, where I have breakfast, where I read, where I just sit and watch the birds

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/writing-space/feed/ 0 7359 Editing the Script https://www.mariecooperactor.com/editing-the-script/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/editing-the-script/#respond Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:33:00 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=6611 Reading Time: 5 minutesThis week has been all about the edit. I started to adapt a short stage play I wrote into an audio play. Changing one, short line set off a whole cascade of further additions, questions and research rabbit holes.

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/editing-the-script/feed/ 0 6611 Found Poetry https://www.mariecooperactor.com/found-poetry/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/found-poetry/#respond Tue, 04 May 2021 17:47:19 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=5887 Reading Time: 2 minutesI zoomed into a Creative Mornings session yesterday evening, on Found Poetry with Troels Heiredal. I have written Found Poetry before and it is almost always a lot of fun. I really should play with it more often. What is Found Poetry Found poetry is taking not just inspiration from what is around you. That […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/found-poetry/feed/ 0 5887 28 Plays Later Zoomthrough https://www.mariecooperactor.com/28-plays-later-zoomthrough-2021/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/28-plays-later-zoomthrough-2021/#respond Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:50:26 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=5532 Reading Time: 2 minutesI was fortunate that one of my plays was chosen from the 28 Plays Later submissions for the Readthroughs, after the challenge. It was the first draft, as the readthroughs had to be the exact, unedited script that we writers had originally submitted during the 28 Plays Later challenge. The full list of all of […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/28-plays-later-zoomthrough-2021/feed/ 0 5532 Reflections on 28 Plays Later, 2021 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/writing-28-plays-in-28-days/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/writing-28-plays-in-28-days/#respond Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:36:35 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=5110 Reading Time: 5 minutesThis was the first time I’d taken on this challenge, to write 28 Plays in the 28 days of February. I knew it wasn’t going to be easy. It wouldn’t be much of a challenge if it was now, would it?. My brain did, at times, try to resist and procrastinate, to make it easier […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/writing-28-plays-in-28-days/feed/ 0 5110 February Playwriting Retreat for 28 Plays Later https://www.mariecooperactor.com/february-playwriting-retreat/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/february-playwriting-retreat/#respond Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:28:45 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=4887 Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m trying to get organised for the month ahead for 28 Plays Later. I’m writing this blog post now because I know what’s coming. Oh, my God! That sounds like something out of a horror novel. My time is short, so I write this to you now. Knowing that soon it will be too late. […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/february-playwriting-retreat/feed/ 0 4887 Playwriting Impostor! https://www.mariecooperactor.com/playwriting-impostor/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/playwriting-impostor/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:00:07 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=4528 Reading Time: 5 minutesPeople tend to put their best selves on the internet. Their positives. Their achievements. All the things that are going well in life. And I am no exception. I do not like to dwell on the negative as a rule. I tend to brush the bad aside as soon as I can and move forwards. […]

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]]> https://www.mariecooperactor.com/playwriting-impostor/feed/ 0 4528 Scriptly Writing – Challenge Complete https://www.mariecooperactor.com/scriptly-writing-challenge-complete/ https://www.mariecooperactor.com/scriptly-writing-challenge-complete/#respond Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:50:43 +0000 https://www.mariecooperactor.com/?p=4275 Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat the Scriptly Writing Challenge Taught Me I did it. I made it. I got to the end of The Literal Challenge‘s ‘Scriptly Writing’ challenge. That felt both the shortest, and yet longest, two weeks of my life. Scriptly Writing. Writing fourteen screenplays in fourteen days. So what have I learned during this gruelling two […]

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