And Janet Shaw who is the ideas and inspiration behind theatre company Jaba Inc – regulars at the Wakefield Drama Festival – has proved herself to be up there with the best of them with her plays pulling in audiences as far away as Australia.
For Mrs Shaw, landlady at the Park Tavern pub in Ossett, good old fashioned humour is the key behind her scripts.
But this has caused some slight translation difficulties when her plays have travelled south of the border.
Mrs Shaw said: "I got an e-mail from a company in Sussex who wanted to stage one of my scripts, but they didn't know what 'ey up meant. They were totally confused."
Mrs Shaw set about writing her first play Love is a Four Letter Word by drawing on very personal experience.
The story follows a mum-to-be whose marriage breaks down when she is five months pregnant.
The production went down a storm and pulled in audiences when it got its first showing at Wakefield Theatre.
She said: "In essence it is a story about myself because I was in the same circumstances. Although there is an element of tragedy to it, there is also a lot of humour.
"The most important thing for me is to write plays which are natural and earthy and use natural language.
"I'm not a fan of swear words and don't use them unnecessarily. But you've got to remember that it's life and people do use the f-word.
"Ultimately behind my writing is an aim to get people to the theatre who have never been before and to change their preconceptions of what the theatre is about."
After her first play, Mrs Shaw penned a number of scripts, but because of rising costs to put on the productions at Wakefield Theatre, opportunities to do this became fewer.
She said: "I saw John Godber's Bouncers and I came away thinking to myself, I can do that.
"Since then I have churned out quite a bit of stuff but it gets disheartening when you haven't got the chance to put your work on stage."
But despite not getting a showing locally, audiences elsewhere are benefiting from Mrs Shaw's writing.
Four of her plays are on a website which is used as a pool for schools, colleges and theatre companies looking for plays to stage.
Mrs Shaw said: "I got an e-mail from a theatre company in Australia who wanted to put on my play Stand and Deliver for nine nights. Afterwards they got in touch again to say it went down and storm and wanted to know if I had any other material I could send them.
"It was such an amazing feeling to think that audiences were really enjoying my stuff."
She is currently rewriting some of her material and is hopeful that one day her work will make it on to TV screens.
She said: "Television is a very closed world if you haven't got the right contacts. But I'll continue writing and take every chance and opportunity I can."