Check out my blog post on the TeachingAuthors Blog, where I show how I use Little Red Riding Hood to explain my creative writing students the necessity of conflict in story.
The last exercise in the blog posts asks you to write two new short stories featuring Little Red Riding Hood. For the first one, you pick a problem that fits you best as a writer. For the second one – and this is the hard one – pick a problem that fits you least as a writer.
Go read the blog post and challenge yourself. Raise the stakes for both Little Red Riding Hood and yourself.
Looking forward to reading your stories!
Categories: A Bit of Everything
Mina Witteman 
Brilliant, Minna. I’ve re-posted it to my “Something Writerly This Way Comes” page just so that I would be forever reminded myself. Keep ’em comin’
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Thank you, Donna! I love thinking up new conflicts for old stories and raising the stakes higher and higher for their protagonists. The actual writing of these ‘new’ stories – which I keep short and sweet, too – give me even more insight in how conflict works, but it also allows me to hone my writing skills.
-Mina
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