I agree with Hunter's idea of us writing short stories off of the papers we pass in class. I think for one of our assignments about a story of our choice, we should do the "person and a problem" passing thing to get some ideas! I think that writing a story is not the most difficult part, but rather coming up with something to write about! This activity could generate some very peculiar and interesting stories! Those stories would also be more fun to workshop because a character I created could be living in a strange setting and solving a problem thought up by one of my peers.
On a different note, I haven't finished both short stories we are reading for tomorrow, but I've read one and a half and I think they are both different versions of Bluebeard. This is a pretty cool concept. It reminded me of the activity we did in class when we passed the papers because we all wrote different renditions of the same stories just in different settings. Reading all of the different versions is very entertaining! I think another interesting idea for a paper would be for us to write a different version of a story either written by us or by one of our peers. This exercise would be quite a challenge because we'd have to be as creative as we could but i think it could be fun and worthwhile.