This book offers a series of dramaturgical writing strategies to help playwrights generate new work and give them unique tools for confronting and overcoming obstacles that playwrights face. Nine different exercises are accompanied by detailed descriptions, play examples from well known writers, and writing prompts to help generate short plays and potentially even full-length work. Alongside these practical provocations are commentaries on the creative process from such artists as Robert Altman, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Lewis Carroll, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Cornell, John Guare, Henrik Ibsen, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Marcel Proust.