Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What was your inspiration for this story?
A: The first obvious influence of this story is the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. The story always seemed very metaphoric to me, like all fairy tales, trying to convince girls to stay on the 'right' path, stay away from scary men you meet on the road. But often those men are the best ones to find.
As I further wrote the story it took on its own metaphor. My Red isn't trying to stay off the wrong path so much as trying to find the right one for her. A common concern for most of us in our twenties, trying to find our way towards the future we’re supposed to have.
But my original inspiration for this story actually came from writing prompt as part of a writing group I participate in. The prompt was a line of dialogue. "You smell delicious." Upon reading it my mind went to the idea of a cartoon Wolf looking on a woman with a cartoon bubble above his head of a cooked turkey, wanting to eat the woman up. I'm sure you can imagine what scene I envisioned from there.
Q: What really happened to Wolf's wife?
A: Wolf's first wife, Madelyn, was a woman who was trying to do the best for her family that she could. She wanted the best in life, which many of us do. After she has their child she's was pregnant she pushed Wolf to use his family connections to make them a better life. Wanting to please his young wife Wolf gets caught up in a revolutionary campaign that hope to make their name on his blood relations, but the landowners don't care who his father is. They find his family and beat them to death, killing his wife and child and believed they'd killed him.
Half dead He crawls into the woods to heal himself, emerging as someone completely different. He isn't a sociopath, but he isn't the kind hearted man willing to do anything for his wife that he was before. He becomes hard, but like all hard men in his heart he is very soft.
Q: What is Wolf's lineage?
A: Wolf is the illegitimate son of a wealthy member of the lower aristocracy. Not a king, or even an earl, just someone with a decent amount of land and a bit of power. His mother, Jocelyn, was a maid in his father's household and they had a brief but passionate relationship. As the son of a landowner Wolf was treated better than many men his age, but not quite as well as his equal, by blood, brothers and sisters. This gave him the inferiority complex that his wife and the revolutionaries could so easily play upon.
Q: Where does this story take place?
A: Like many fairytales in my mind I placed it in France, sometime during the enlightenment around the time when revolution was all the rage small and large. I don't imagine that the revolution that Wolf attempted was very large, probably didn't make it past the town they lived in. But I wrote the story rather vague so that the reader can decide for themselves. It’s all up to your own imagination.
A: The first obvious influence of this story is the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. The story always seemed very metaphoric to me, like all fairy tales, trying to convince girls to stay on the 'right' path, stay away from scary men you meet on the road. But often those men are the best ones to find.
As I further wrote the story it took on its own metaphor. My Red isn't trying to stay off the wrong path so much as trying to find the right one for her. A common concern for most of us in our twenties, trying to find our way towards the future we’re supposed to have.
But my original inspiration for this story actually came from writing prompt as part of a writing group I participate in. The prompt was a line of dialogue. "You smell delicious." Upon reading it my mind went to the idea of a cartoon Wolf looking on a woman with a cartoon bubble above his head of a cooked turkey, wanting to eat the woman up. I'm sure you can imagine what scene I envisioned from there.
Q: What really happened to Wolf's wife?
A: Wolf's first wife, Madelyn, was a woman who was trying to do the best for her family that she could. She wanted the best in life, which many of us do. After she has their child she's was pregnant she pushed Wolf to use his family connections to make them a better life. Wanting to please his young wife Wolf gets caught up in a revolutionary campaign that hope to make their name on his blood relations, but the landowners don't care who his father is. They find his family and beat them to death, killing his wife and child and believed they'd killed him.
Half dead He crawls into the woods to heal himself, emerging as someone completely different. He isn't a sociopath, but he isn't the kind hearted man willing to do anything for his wife that he was before. He becomes hard, but like all hard men in his heart he is very soft.
Q: What is Wolf's lineage?
A: Wolf is the illegitimate son of a wealthy member of the lower aristocracy. Not a king, or even an earl, just someone with a decent amount of land and a bit of power. His mother, Jocelyn, was a maid in his father's household and they had a brief but passionate relationship. As the son of a landowner Wolf was treated better than many men his age, but not quite as well as his equal, by blood, brothers and sisters. This gave him the inferiority complex that his wife and the revolutionaries could so easily play upon.
Q: Where does this story take place?
A: Like many fairytales in my mind I placed it in France, sometime during the enlightenment around the time when revolution was all the rage small and large. I don't imagine that the revolution that Wolf attempted was very large, probably didn't make it past the town they lived in. But I wrote the story rather vague so that the reader can decide for themselves. It’s all up to your own imagination.
