31 Plays in 31 Days, #2 - “Home Field Advantage”

I have a feeling there is going to be a fair bit of fanfic for this year’s 31P31D. I’ve been working on one a lot lately, albeit a silly, easy one, my one hundred-installment comedy chat fic Texts from Avengers Tower. But I’ve had an actual prose-based one on the back burner for Boulder in the Stream, the latest installment from my post-retirement Captain America series, Forever Captain. When I got busy I kind of put it aside, seeing as it’s actually requiring some plot structure, which I find to be one of the most labor-intensive parts of making a story.

I’ve found success when I was stuck on prose scenes in the past by first drafting them as theatrical scenes, later to be edited and filled out by the narration. So that’s what I’ve done here, imagined a moment from Boulder as a scene. Though honestly I doubt I’d include this conversation in its entirety in the story, just a few lines or so from it. And the bit I’m currently stuck on is all action and minimal dialogue. But it’s something, and fun to think about.

This piece takes place after three installments from last year, Lost Cat, Recon Mom, and Veterans. It’s after the cops finally show up, to interview the two seemingly suburban middle-aged parents about the action that just went down.



( Day #2 - Home Field Advantage )