Consider this as a product of my first time ever really diving into playwriting.

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I did write another play before this for the contest "S(he)'s Playing Piano" but I realized the background context of the story didn't seem too coherent. Overall, the biggest struggle for me in this contest was to really create a storyline that was compelling in 10 pages (The contest equivalized a page to a minute.) or less. On top of that, establishing dialogue that made sense in terms of background story but also was interesting and understandable to an audience that did not know background pretext proved to be hard as well. I'm more used to writing prose so this step-up in which I had to bring character development without using internal monologue or author narration proved to be somewhat difficult, though the provided freedom in which descriptions of stage directions proved to be an essential asset for this play. 

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Much of my time for doing this whole play contest was just me thinking of ways how to balance story development, character development, and the upbringing of internal conflict to a certain extent, since I wanted to maintain a coming-of-age nature to the play. This led me to develop 4 separate drafts of my play. The first 2 made me feel that there was obvious rooms for improvement since development and pacing did felt clanky and awkward at times, maybe from my ambition to fit in all my ideas at once which made for a heap of un-nurtured ideas. The 3rd draft was one I emphasized or tried relatively too hard on establishing bond/friendship between the 3 but essentially left the undertones of an internal conflict abandoned and it turned more into slice-of-life. Thus, this 4th one, I feel I may have struck the right chord with? But again, I'm pretty new to this approach of storytelling so there are errors in it for sure. 

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Though overall, I hoped the story turned out to be well. This really honed my practice on how to establish meaningful dialogue and how to really try to flesh out internal conflicts in a short yet somewhat effective manner., a skill that will be absolutely essential since one of my longer works (see below!) touches on it.