Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26444017-20180816045139/@comment-26444017-20180816072324

I was trying to avoid spoiling that, but since it's not present yet, I'll let ya know. The working title of the piece is 'Medical Practice'. Throughout, you have this bumbling doctor with aspirations of becoming a surgeon, but he's just not good enough.

Phoebe, the love interest tells him on more than one occasion that he just needs more practice, not necessarily at surgery, but moreso to perform surgery on people. He takes her advice to heart and, in the third segment I wrote out tonight, makes a wager with her. If he can turn himself into a confident, capable surgeon in a week's time, she would agree to accompany him home to 'celebrate'.

No big surprise, but he pulls it off, becoming exceptionally skilled in a ridiculously short period of time. Phoebe chalks it up to him changing his outlook during practice and improving his confidence through hard work. She holds up her end of the bargain, but once at his house she starts really asking him how he did it. He's evasive, but she's persistent, and eventually he gets angry enough to show her how he did it.

Behind a locked door, he has his 'practice room'.

Draw thy own conclusions from here. I still have yet to write it, but I know what it's going to be, and I think you can guess as well. Basically, all the opening romance part is to give the characters motivation and realism, and lull the reader into a false sense of security. My only concern was that I would be dragging it on too long.