“I would this play were done: half of it is completed and I have seven days more, but the second half is mightily oppressing me.”

A familiar writer's complaint about the strain of finishing commissioned work · Letter to Victor Plarr, 24 October 1892

• Struggle
• Work
• Writing

“I have been frightfully busy, having rashly undertaken to make a little Pierrot play in verse for Peters... So until this period of severe mental agony be past, I can go nowhere.”

Turning the pressure of writing to a deadline into typically theatrical self-mockery · Letter to Victor Plarr, 24 October 1892

• Humour
• Work
• Writing