31 Plays in 31 Days, #8 - “Spider Sense”

I have decided to count bits written for Texts from Avengers Tower in this challenge. I sometimes feel weirdly guilty about all the ways I violate the original rules of the 31 Plays in 31 Days challenge— writing scenes instead of plays, not always reaching a full page, using screenplay instead of script form, working out scenes eventually intended to be prose as dialogue-only versions, et cetera, et cetera. But then I remember the original challenge doesn’t even formally exist anymore; if I’m going to keep doing this on my own, it should serve my creative needs, not some arbitrary standard. And my creative needs happen to include writing dumb text-speak exchanges between MCU characters to flesh out what is far and away the most popular thing I’ve ever written.

Last year’s 31P31D came on the heels of having challenged myself to write and post a new text every day for a hundred days, between April 9th and July 25th 2022. I was really proud of what I wrote, and as I said, given that it’s generated over 41 thousand hits, it’s definitely the most read piece in my oeuvre— for whatever that’s worth! I can’t help but wish my more important, original, and labor-intensive pieces had that honor, but, hey, it’s better than nobody caring about nothin’.

So here’s one more. I’m up to 114!



( Day #8 - Spider Sense )