Converting “The DiVacci Curse” from the Stage to a Short Story

Today I’d like to talk about my short story, “The DiVacci Curse.”

I originally wrote the “The DiVacci Curse” as a one-act play when I was in the midst of a playwriting class in college way back when.  Converting it from a play to a short story proved a fun and interesting challenge.  In a play, much of the story is told through the character’s actions onstage.  In a story or novel that same action has to be described in detail so that the reader can create those very images in their mind.  Details can be given in graphic, vivid description and exposition or they can be conveyed via character dialog.