It’s writing group tomorrow and recently we have been trying to set ourselves different challenges, rather than have a random subject like Umbrella, Autumn, Cloak. For tomorrow the challenge was to write a well known tale or story , fairy tale, legend, children’s story, whatever! I’ve been pondering on what to write, when it suddenly came to me in a flash. I took the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and wrote something from the point of view of the wolf. It didn’t end well for Red Riding Hood, I’m afraid, and it was quite a different style of story from what I usually write – which was the whole point of the challenge!
I have mentioned here previously, of a take on Red Riding Hood which I wrote when I was teaching. It was a short novella for reluctant readers, students who could read but didn’t want to. The main character in my story was Rufus Redmayne, whose grandma disappeared – and it wasn’t a big bad wolf who was the villain but a were-wolf. I had various other fairy-tale characters, a Goldilocks who had been excluded from school for trashing someone’s house, a forest ranger somewhat like a fairy-tale woodsman, magic and spells and an Arthurian sword to slay the beast. The book is available on Amazon if you know a reluctant reader!
I’m looking forward to hearing other people’s stories, I know they will be really varied and very original – I will report back!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Rufus-Redmayne-Lois-Elsden-ebook/dp/B08VDJH3ZR
Lois Elsden 