31 Plays in 31 Days, #26 - “Like a Wineskin at a Wake”

More messing around with Adonis ideas. This builds off of a scene written for a previous 31P31D, #26 - A Small Thing. It’s exploring an idea I’m not sure I’m committed to, since Bernie felt like it might be too coincidental to have one of the big bads be a specific abuser from Aidan’s past. I’m undecided about that, since I’m not sure the punch the personal angle might impart doesn’t outweigh my strong dislike for relying on coincidence. But I don’t want to imply that vanquishing her solves all his problems, either, so… there’s a lot to consider. And it’s not a priority right now to tease that out, given the time it would take from other projects.

But I do find drafting sometimes helps me figure stuff out, see if I like how it works— much as I hate wasting work. But it’s not really a waste if it’s practice. In this project I want to push myself outside of my… timidity, I guess, of ever writing about anything too distasteful or raw. I think I rob some of my ideas of their power because I get awkward or squeamish and make things too anodyne. Here’s an attempt to get a bit more raw. Just barely, anyway. It’s tricky to nail down the right language, that sounds neither too modern nor too stiff.



( Day #26 - Like a Wineskin at a Wake )