So, me thinks I might have invented a new verb! Well, Alex, you read it here first!

For those who wish to be illuminated, the term playwright is not a variant spelling of playwrite, but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright, cartwright, or shipwright). Hence the prefix and the suffix combine to indicate someone who, like me, crafts plays.

So, since the term playwrighting means crafting a play (as being distinct from writing a play, since the act of crafting a play requires learned skills and is much more than the specific act of writing) I have taken the noun ‘wright’ to also be a verb: ‘to wright’ meaning to craft.

And so, to quote my facebook profile (seven friends and counting, and at the rate of adding one friend every two hours!) being a playwright, I guess I wright plays.

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