Lisa Carroll

Never Miss A Monday: Weekly Zoom Sessions for Writers & Creatives Join our weekly Zoom writing session for focus, accountability, and community.

What is NEVER MISS A MONDAY?

✏️ If you thrive on community & accountability, you need WRITING ZOOMS. They've transformed my playwriting practice, and I hope they'll help you too.

➡️ Join us every Monday from September to Christmas to finish the year strong!
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A bit counter-culture but I do not push through! I try to be gentle and do things off the page that count as creative practice - walks, drawing, reading, mulling, anything! For me, pushing through has resulted in a terse relationship with my creativity and makes writing more fraught x

Never Miss A Monday: Weekly Zoom Sessions for Writers & Creatives Join our weekly Zoom writing session for focus, accountability, and community.

🚨 NEVER MISS A MONDAY RETURNS! 🚨

Get your head back in the game from September - ring fence your writing time on Monday night with writing Zooms!

Bonus if you manage to make EVERY SESSION til Xmas!

Join us!!!
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#WritingCommunity #Motivation

Just back from a dreamy writing day in the middle of nowhere 😍 Nothing beats nature for creative inspiration 🎭✍️

I've spent far too long today collating all the most useful ways to find me here... www.lisa-carroll.co.uk/links
For all your workshop, script reading, body doubling needs & more!

Whatever you repeat you get good at.

Whatever you practice you get good at.

Just by showing up.

It's the law of doing things! Doesn't even matter the quality of the practice or bad days. Just keep dragging your ass to the page 😆

You can't *not* get better 💫

#Creativity #Playwriting

With playwriting, everything comes back to FLOW

1/ While writing, losing yourself in the scene
2/ Actors utterly embodying your characters
3/ The collective dream-state you're weaving the audience into

What is flow? Timelessness, boundlessness, impulse, essence, presence 💫
#creativity #playwriting

Are you writing to express or to impress?

Playwriting is not an intellectual exercise, it is an emotional one. A sensual one. An embodied one.

I will die on this hill.

Some of the best, most enduring writing advice I've ever received is to make your play UNDENIABLE.

Not good, not bad, not well-written, not to everyone's taste necessarily, just impossible to deny in the strength of it's cry in the dark.

#Writing #Playwriting #Theatre

Script Reading & Development Q&A - Philip Shelley, Script Consultant Script Reading & Development Q&A Session via Zoom. Cost: £95.00  A semi-regular 2½ hour session, on Zoom, which I organise on demand. If you’re interested, would like to register your interest or have...

I'm taking bookings for my April 16th SCRIPT READING & DEVELOPMENT zoom Q&A script-consultant.co.uk/script-readi...

RSC - Writing for Performance | Norwich Theatre This session is part of 'Shakespeare Saturdays' – free introductory masterclasses, led by Royal Shakespeare Company practitioners, open to everyone over 18.

So looking forward to heading to Norwich Theatre this weekend to teach this Writing For Performance masterclass for the RSC! 🤩
Norwich playwrights come say hello!!!

A typewriter and title text: Writing for TV: Pitch Docs

Eight tickets left!

New date for TV WRITING: PITCH DOCS workshop after last one sold out super quick. 22nd April, 6.30 - 9.30 pls share! #TVwriting #Screenwriting

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Don't "toughen up"

I had a conversation with an artist recently, a very sensitive soul, who said she was trying to "toughen up" to keep pursuing her art

While this is supposedly received wisdom, part of me balked

Our job is to be sensitive. To stay alive & aware. Soft.

Keep the channel open!

With Brighton Fringe running for a month (but shows seeming to have short runs) does anyone whose been before or lives there know is there an ideal time to go down for a few days? @brightonfringe.bsky.social

It's our two-year anniversary of
Milly Thomas & my book 'Making Your Solo Show' being published by
@nickhernbooks.bsky.social !!

(& I still remember weeping when the box of books arrived like it was yesterday 😂😭❤️)

I currently have two remaining spaces for script consultation & feedback in February. Get in touch on my website for more info!

If you're getting ready to submit to a prize (e.g. Women's Playwriting Prize 👀 ) please leave plenty of time to rewrite and implement your feedback!

THREE of these left til we wrap up for the year

Join us for the final push

Monday evenings - 90 mins quiet writing with body doubles/accountability

Let's do this!
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Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide; A clear, accessible guide to creating and putting on a solo show, packed with inspiring, practical advice for writers, actors, directors and anyone who wants ...

Super looking forward to leading the first in-person SOLO SHOWS workshop since the pandemic tonight with angel Milly Thomas at SCRUM theatre's HQ

A workshop based on the book based on the workshop www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/making-your-...

My challenge to writer pals:
If you're avoiding something because it brings up difficult feelings... or the procrastination itself brings up a mix of stuff... can you put on a timer for 2 mins & allow the feelings to do their thing?
Then see how you feel about the task then?
LMK how you get on 😍

I took a minute to just sit with the dread that rose up this eve when I opened an app I need to finish.
It was like a dense fog on my chest.
I imagined it dissolving & dissipating into my surroundings.
It wasn't long until the feeling passed & I was able to sit down to the app with clear eyes.

In the final leg of the year I'm struggling with a lot of resistance to my to-do list, writing, applications, all of it really.

Part of it is - I definitely just need a good old rest at this point.

But part of it is emotional. The baggage of rejections past that tries to get me to avoid...

Love these reccs, I am building a fabulous Christmas reading list!!! 🤩

Blue-sky-ers!
On Mondays I host a Zoom for playwrights/screenwriters/creatives called Never Miss A Monday which is for quiet working but in lovely company!

Do join us tomorrow 7-8.30pm
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I'm currently re-reading David Edgar's 'How Plays Work' and getting so much from it, highly recommend 🤩

Already a fan of bluesky for immediately showing me numerous pics of the Moon.
What a thing it is to be seen, to be known.