Writer

             "You'll never think of anything," was the thought that kept running through my head. How could this be when I have always been such a good writer? Well, it happened, so call the doctor because this was the worst case of writer's block in the history of the world.
             Maybe you need a little background information. I was taking Theatre Appreciation at Darton College in Albany, Ga. I figured that it would be an easy 'A' because I had always been active in the theatre there, and the guy teaching the class was the director first, but he was also my bud. So anyway, at the beginning of the semester he gave us each a partner in the class and a chapter out of the book to do this big huge oral report on. He gave my partner and me playwriting. I took this assignment as a pretty big challenge because our director had originally been a playwright and I really felt like we needed to go the extra mile to impress him because, well, that's how he made a name for himself for so many years. He was contracted at a theatre in Rhode Island to be their in house playwright as well as writing for a children's TV show called ALLAMAZE. You see why I took this assignment so seriously? I knew to get his attention I was going to have to be unique and creative.....but what should I do. I would have my partner do the text book work and I would write a play give my experiences writing the play then have a few people out of the class perform it. This is where the story goes to hell.
             I had always been a decent writer so I didn't think it would be that hard once I got a good idea rolling. At first I thought I had a great idea. I was going to write a play about a close nit group of high school friends and the "traumatic problems" that they faced together. So I wrote, I wrote, and I wrote, and I wrote. After ten pages I decided to go back and read it. It was awful. Every character in the play
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