Well, it depends on how you write. As you may know,a external conflict is a conflict occurring outside, like tornado or fires. A internal conflict is a conflict occurring inside like emotions. You could write about a man surviving on a island, balancing the external conflict (weather, hunger, etc) while still maintaining the emotional conflicts (misses family, difficult to kill animals).
Assuming that you're referring to the Flvs english 1, the one that you need to think bout throughout unit 1 is : Future possibilities. Most of the topic in this unit talk about future possibilities
Nowadays, the requirements for female writers and male writers aren't so different from each other, in terms of creative thinking. Female authors write about everything with more autonomy than in the Victorian era, where Mrs. Woolf was born. But when we speak of financial terms, there's still a difference between them.