# Let your play sing: top 6 tips for musical theater bookwriting Source URL:: https://www.pwcenter.org/playwriting-toolkit/let-your-play-sing-top-6-tips-musical-theater-bookwriting This article is for those dramatists who are thinking of exploring music in their work. Here are six simple observations I have made, based on my recent experiences. I hope they will jazz your musical theater writing heart! ## Highlights > [!quote]+ %%Updated on Wed Mar 29 2023 17:03:11 GMT-0400%% > > THIS PROCESS TAKES TIME. Keep the faith. Keep making your piece as clear as it can be, as imaginative as it can be, as true and wild and wonderful. Just like you found your collaborators, you will find those that see value in your show. Drive your process to show them what you see. What makes it special. Workshopping musicals is EXHAUSTING. But it teaches you not to wait. It teaches you that the only way that people will find you and your piece, is by making it the piece you believe it should be and communicating the piece to the best of your ability to them. For every play or musical we see, there are versions of that idea that failed. This is what will lead to your success. Learning from what worked and didn’t. The point, I think is, that with musical theater writing, more than any other form of dramatic writing, the journey is the most important thing. In this way, it is really less about what you’re writing, and more about how writing this piece affects the skills you gain to write your next play, musical … or play with music, perhaps?!