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Here are literally hundreds of FREE ideas, suitable for adapting for single songs, or short 10-minute musicals, one-acts, full-lengths…of every genre from spooky stories to dramas, comedies, fantasies, children’s stories, etc.

Library of Ideas

With the year 2020, there are lots of works which have just entered the public domain, and you’ll find a bunch of them here…

We just added lots of new texts:  nearly 200 plays and 400 new stories.  You’ll find works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, James Joyce, H.P. Lovecraft, James M. Barrie, Katherine Mansfield, and of course the classic writers like Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, etc.  But you’ll also find a treasure trove of wonderful stories by lesser known writers (we adore Susan Glaspell’s writing, and have just discovered the amazing stories of H.C. Bunner and M.R. James).

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Hundreds of Free Stories and Plays

With the year 2020, there are lots of works which have just entered the public domain, and you’ll find a bunch of them here…

We just added lots of new texts:  nearly 200 plays and 400 new stories.  You’ll find works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, James Joyce, H.P. Lovecraft, James M. Barrie, Katherine Mansfield, and of course the classic writers like Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, etc.  But you’ll also find a treasure trove of wonderful stories by lesser known writers (we adore Susan Glaspell’s writing, and have just discovered the amazing stories of H.C. Bunner and M.R. James).

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also of interest:

The Lyric Lab

The Lyric Lab is a hands-on class packed with videos, exercises, tests, handouts, and assignments, guiding you through essentials of writing musical theatre lyrics. The course is hosted by Emmy-nominated Scott Guy (Disney, NBC, PBS, Warner Brothers), with feedback from Larry Todd Cousineau (All That He Was, Flies! the Musical, 40 is the New 15).

The Lyric Lab has been helping hundreds of lyricists for a decade. And now it’s been completely updated, drawing from examples from contemporary Broadway musicals like Hamilton, Evan Hansen, Hadestown, as well as classic musicals from Golden Age.

In Lyric Lab I - Fundamentals, you’ll focus on key areas of craft, including musical theatre song structure, telling your story through lyrics, perfect rhyme and near rhyme, matching the accents of lyric to the music, how to decide which songs to write, and how to format your musical to get it ready to submit to theatres and producers.

You can take this course at your own pace. It’s designed for one unit a week, but you can take it faster or slower; from anywhere in the world. It’s all online.

Fill out the info form, and we’ll tell you how to get started on the Lyric Lab today!

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