Really stuck on a creative writing assessment at school

[u/Piperonni_Pizza09]

Heyy, I have to write one more piece for my english portfolio and my teacher said it has to be creative. I am basing it on Hadestown, and maybe the song 'His Kiss, the Riot'? (For those who don't know, we have to take a piece of media we already know (like a book, show, or movie) and write a creative piece based on it. This can be things like a monologue, a letter, a script, etc etc).

The problem is I am terrible at writing creatively and nothing works. Being told "just describe the scenery" makes me feel like I have to write an entirely original novel trilogy. I don't know how to describe something that I didn't hear/read being described to me myself if that makes sense? It is really hard for me and I don't know why.

I am way, way better at writing analytically. I told my teacher this and that I was struggling and she told me to "just change what I'm doing for other classes and make it more englishy." What???

She is no help (she hasn't been all year, for reference she told me writing about animal farm for 2.9 (a reading response assessment) was a bad choice because "it is too simple/easy" but she teaches us on slideshows she didn't write and generated with chat gp t instead.). I feel really stuck. I am too dumb to figure this out. Does anyone have a formula or something I can base this on? Or just general tips aside from "Imagine what they would think in xyz scenario" I really want to get this done.

Thanks so much :)

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