Retelling as a Way of Improving Your Craft and Creativity

Working with a well-known tale can be more creative than you think

Joanna Maciejewska
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readJun 11, 2020

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Telling a story that has already been told might not seem like the most creative thing to do, but retelling — telling old stories in a new way or with a twist — can be a fun way of improving your writing craft and training yourself to be a better writer.

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Joanna has lived in three countries on two continents. She loves writing, everything fantasy & science fiction, and video games. More at: http://authorjm.com