ABSTRACT

It isn’t due to a lack of education or brilliance or vitamin K. It’s due to our lack of awareness. We’re all passionate and perceptive about certain thingswe just have to figure out what they are.

“In order to create art works of any worth, each artist must have something to say, some values, some attitudes, some store of experience-a vision,” my former playwriting teacher, Sam Smiley, said in Playwriting: The Structure of Action. Each artist must “identify those attitudes before they will ever energize a work of value.”