Ghosts and Hair Extentions

Recently I've been juggling thoughts for four creative pieces. Two are prominent and, because of that will probably be done first. The first one: Rapunzel with a twist.

The assignment is to write two thousand words on one of the themes of the texts we've been covering, and since the two main texts are mainly little red riding hood with other fairytale elements thrown in. And then I thought, what if Rapunzel had been the maker of her own demise? what if it was her that had asked to be put into the tower in the first place to try to filter out the men that didn't deserve her. And then the idea festered for a while, and grew, and soon a new piece of the story grew into being, what if the length of hair wasn't for the men to climb up; what if it was an escape route given to Rapunzel by the witch and she'd just been using the hair wrong?

Rapunzel has become opinionated and feminist, so much so that she threw the key to her tower out of the window and refuses help from any man. First is Nick, the knighted dwarf, an overly cheery little thing with brains enough not to risk his life with an attempted climb up her hair.

The second piece of writing is basically whatever the hell I want it to be as long as it pushes the boundaries of my abilities. In the last class my lecturer put up five words on the board, I remember three: Obsession, Ghost and Perfection.

In my own way I will incorporate all three, but I was thinking of taking the idea of a broken man and bringing in drink, and the smell of a woman that vanishes when he looks around. It's nothing more than a skeleton at the moment, but it should be a challenge to write, and I enjoy challenges.