Category: Seasonal/Monthly Prompts

January Writing Prompts

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★New Year, Old Me

New year’s is not going how you expected. Not in the least. During the New Year’s Eve celebrations, you noticed a strange cloud on the horizon of the sky that no one else seems to pay attention to. Quickly, it culminates into an enormous storm before blowing everyone and everything about. Somehow, perhaps by falling and hitting your head, you’re knocked out. Only to wake up and find yourself on January 1st of the previous year.

★Vulnerable

You’re a reckless teen who has little to no regard for your own safety. Fed up with your act, your guardian angel quits. But little did you know what he was really protecting you from….

★A Mysterious Read

You go to check out book at your local library to find there is a book reserved at the desk for you. The cover is blank so you don’t know the title. Confused and unable to remember whether or not it was you who reserved the book, you take it home and begin to read. To your surprise, the book describes the beginning of your day, right up until you checked the book out. But there is more to read….

★Fish Bait

You are a farm boy who lives near a lake and herds goats and sheep for a living. One day, you decide to fish for your supper. But, to your surprise, you find something much bigger than a fish at the end of your line. You have caught the famed Capricorn.

★Cursed Castle

You are the daughter of a wealthy family who happens to own a castle. You don’t exactly live like a princess like expected. In fact, the castle is simply a tourist attraction and is the means by which your family makes their living. One day, while helping your mom clean the basement of the castle, you see a full suit of armor walk from one end of the hall to another before disappearing around the corner. Confused and amazed, you inform your mother who of course doesn’t believe you, chalking it up to the wild imagination of a child. But you know what you saw. And other weird things begin to happen….

★ Garnet Heart

The year is 2052, and you are a robotic scientist who has achieved much in your life. Your specialty is developing incredibly intelligent AI, and, for an upcoming Science Event, you decide to design a new, and innovative Robot: The GEM. The GEM design is a humanoid robot design with a chamber in the robot’s chest where you can place an item. You chose a Garnet, and your first GEM robot comes to life. You later find out that the personality of the robot depends on the gem you place in their chest.

Christmas Writing Prompts

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Good evening and happy Christmas eve, bloggers! Hope you are having a fabulous (and festive) week! I’ve had quite a busy last few since school let out and we’ve been on winter break but I am happy deliver yet another seasonal writing prompt collection! Enjoy & have a lovely Christmas!

Down the Rabbit Hole in December

On Christmas eve, your mother allows you out to play in the snow and you do so with glee. But between making Snow Angels you spot a white rabbit bouncing along and start to follow, only to find yourself slipping on ice and falling down the rabbit hole to find…

Wonderland of course!

But things are not at all like you had read! Sure, you recognize the castle along with a few odd characters from the book but the world looks rather different with snow falling gently upon magical world as everyone prepares for Christmas. Now its up to you to figure out how you can get home in time for the holidays.

Box

You live in a world where on your sixteenth birthday, you are given a special gift in a box. Nobody knows where they come from. They just show up on your doorstep on your birthday when you come of age. The rules of these box gifts is every single one is unique and no two people have the same box or “gift”. You open yours to find….

A Bardic Christmas Tale

A young bard with a pristine appreciation for music and Christmas sets out to find the best, most beautiful, and most magical Christmas song there is. Why exactly? World domination probably.

Mother Christmas

Every year Father Christmas leaves his wife at home while he goes out and delivers gifts to the world. Tell me what Mother Christmas does while Father Christmas is gone?

Escape the North Pole

A story where Santa is evil and runs coal driven factories and employs slave-like labor from the Elves of the Land. The story is centered around a team of elves bent on escaping and bringing down this communist operation.

Halloween Writing Prompts

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A little late for Halloween but still close enough that I can justify sharing these. 🙂

★ Sugar Coated

A group of kids participate in trick-or-treating around their block. They stop off at an odd house of an elderly woman who just moved in recently (I think you know where this is going…). She gives them each a different candy bar. After Halloween, the candies mix with the kid’s other candy. They didn’t know something was off about them until a member of their group ate one, and woke up breathing fire and with scaly wings the next day. Shortly thereafter, another kid contacted the others to report a weird golden aura surrounding them and that they think they were growing… feathered wings? What on earth was going on?

★ Grandpa’s Crypt

A group of teens on Halloween visit on of the kid’s grandpa’s crypt, hoping to scare each other silly with ghost stories and made-up noises. But the night takes a dark turn when the door of the crypt swings shut. And their adventure begins. You see, the grandfather, unbeknownst to teens, was a little eccentric, but rich. He desired to be buried with his riches, much like the Egyptians, but, unlike the Egyptians, he also wanted to be buried in an underground maze rigged with a network of traps.

★ The Magic Mask Shop

A new mask shop comes to town every Halloween. It suddenly shows up and then goes away. But this year, they are selling some very special masks. They appear to be masquerade masks but, they not only hide the wearer’s face but transform them entirely.

★ Rest in Reese’s Pieces

A kid, on the night of Halloween, hears the doorbell ring. He opens to find a tall man standing at the door with a black cloak, skull face, and a large scythe. The child, assuming him to be a trick-or-treater, is impressed with the costume and says as such, before giving the reaper a big handful of Reese’s Cups. Luckily, the Reaper was a sucker for chocolate, and disappeared. The next morning, the child wakes with a gift from the reaper at the foot of his bed….

★ Spell Bound

The night of Halloween, you run into a woman on the street. She looks very sad, and her costume intricate, with burn marks along her skirt. You kindly ask her if she was alright and if she’d like a lift or anything. She replies she doesn’t want much; just a single licorice. You kindly oblige, giving her every licorice you can find in your trick-or-treat stash. She seems to brighten up at this, and disappears. Unbeknownst to you, there was a witch burning in that part of town, and you had just met the witch who was victim of this. But she seemed to like you well enough and appreciate the candy, so it should be no surprise to you when you find a giant, leather book in your trick-or treat sack labeled “Spells”.

November Writing Prompts

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★ Communion by Fire

Fires are very special things. For centuries, people have been gathering around them, exchanging stories and making conversation around them as people feel the warm flames. Tell me about a special fire that someone finds. This fire is ever burning and the walls between alternate realities and timelines are particularly thin here, making it so souls from all sorts of worlds and eras can gather and make conversation here by the fire.

★ Tales from a Tree

A girl finds a very special tree in her woods that likes to make polite conversation and talk about all sorts of things. Being alive for so long, you’re bound to see something interesting.

★ Fall Queen

Every year, the armies of the Fall Queen and Winter Queen are at war. And, every year, Winter wins, only the be dethroned by spring in the later months. But she will enjoy her few months of victory and ice and The Fall Queen retreats and waits for her next moment to strike. But something odd happened this year. This balance was threatened as the Fall Queen, after dethroning summer, maintains her Queenship. The Winter Queen lost this year.

★ Time Travel and Campsites

A group of teens go camping only to wake up and find they have traveled back in time to the medieval England.

★ The Cornmaze Reaper

Every year, per tradition, the children of a village are let loose in the corn, to prove themselves worthy. They must elude the Reaper and make it to the other side, before succumbing to the clutches of the cornmaze.

★ The Lady who runs the Apple Stand

I bought apples from someone today on the way home from work. She was very kind, don’t get me wrong. And she sells the best apples. But today she offered me a special one. One half was green and the other was red. For some reason, it reminded me of something. Then I couldn’t believe I hadn’t noticed it before; her skin was white as snow, her lips were red as blood, and her hair was black as coal.

★ Pumpkin Girl

A girl finds she has one small magical gift: every pumpkin she carves, comes to life.