"play-writing" meaning in English

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          "text": "Only by bearing the audience constantly in mind can the student learn the numerous devices which make play-writing an art quite different from any other form of narration.",
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          "ref": "1959, Moss Hart, Act One: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 167:",
          "text": "One does learn a little through the years, of course, but what one learns is the surface tricks of play-writing, never how to avoid the major errors. Perhaps the reason that one can never practice the art of play-writing with any degree of sureness or security is that each play has a peculiar and separate life of its own.",
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          "text": "As a playwright she has won the Nick Darke award for her script Paradise (an environmental play) and the Generation Zed play-writing competition for a script idea for the Pilot Theatre to be developed for young people (11–15 year olds).",
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