Today I started reading Playwriting: Writing, Producing, and Selling Your Play by Louis E. Catron. So far it’s a good read. I like Catron’s direct no-bullshit approach. He’s not trying to work New Age marketing crap into his book. From what I’ve read so far it’s a solid introduction to the basics of writing for theatre. He has a number of early suggestions about how to develop as a writer long before he gets to the concrete advice about constructing a stage play. For instance he advises writing a journal. He has some nifty ideas for establishing a private journal that is designed to keep random dialogue, story lines, characters,…