31 Plays in 31 Days, #5 - “The Gift”

Well, my plan worked! By using this challenge as an excuse to draft the dialogue in my fan fic, “The Favor”, it was sufficient impetus to not only finish the third chapter, but also more or less draft the fourth and final in its entirety! Yay!

After getting the dialogue together enough to complete the scene, I filled it out with narration and edited it to make sure it worked as a prose piece, then posted it as chapter 3 of the fan fiction. I’m pretty happy with how it came out— not to mention the fact that it got a hundred and fifty reads in a day. Sigh. Now you know why I can’t kick the fan fic habit.

This scene immediately follows #3 – Sides, and basically spans the entirety of chapter four. It works pretty well as is, but… and I hate to say it, as it directly contradicts my frequently stated frustrations with the obviousness of prose… but this actually does lose a fair bit without Tony’s internal monologue. Particularly since the capper is in the narration.

Ah, well. It’ll be there in the fic. I’ll edit the chapter and post it in a week. And get a hundred and fifty hits in a day that I could never get on an original piece. :-/



( Day #5 – The Gift )