What type of playwright are you?

You're about to start writing a new play, what do you do?

Get a few outstanding tasks done first, including deep cleaning your oven and planning your own funeral

Draw a detailed, colour coded structure map and write every moment of the play on a post-it note.

Start from the beginning: write every single scene in the protagonists' life, from birth

You have a deadline coming up for a playwriting competition, do you:

Make a bullet point plan for getting your play finished on time.

Wonder if your printer has enough ink for your 257 page script.

Panic about the deadline and then make a cup of tea.

You get up an hour early to get some extra writing done, do you:

Put a load of washing on, make pancakes for breakfast and prepare your evening meal, before realising you have no time to write and are late for work.

Write a six page monologue about a childhood memory of your main character?

Make a list of everything you need to include in your next scene.

How do you approach re-drafting your work?

You elaborate on every scene but you don't cut anything in case you lose the good bits.

You google fancy coffee machines and watch You Tube videos of people making cheesecake.

You write a new one page outline, scene by scene breakdown and list of character objectives.

You're mid-way through your script and you're struggling with where to go next, do you:

Make a cup of tea. And then another one.

Come up with a plan of action for the second half of your play.

Write ten scenes where your characters discuss their plans for the weekend.

Where do you find inspiration for your ideas?

From writing lists of everything you want to write about.

From looking at the Facebook profiles of people you went to infant school with and #catsofintstagram

From the thousands of scenes you have written about moments in the lives of your friends.

What type of playwright are you?

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