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HAPPY NEW YEAR PLAYWRIGHTS!! Start your New Year's Resolution with PSH -- listen to "The Play's the Thing" for a step-by-step guide to playwrighting, and then find all your submission opps at playsubmissionshelper.com Podcast Five Agenda Welcome/Start-Up’s The handout Who am I? (Your host, Andrew Black, playwright, and your sponsor, Play Submissions Helper) Why Create a Major Dramatic Question? Engages the audience Provides a “shape” to the story Maps to questions the audience is probably struggling with Using the MDQ Introduce early; wrap up near the end Link to protagonist Kinds of Goals Kinds of goals and kinds of plots Positive vs. negative goals Strength of goal On-Stage Manifestation Conceptual goals and on-stage manifestations How the two kinds of goals work together Possible Outcomes of the MDQ MDQ and Plot The nature of the MDQ can help drive plotting Once the MDQ is answered, the play is effectively over.