This Week's Writing Prompts: My Nightmare Before Christmas:
It's almost here, that time of year! I don't know about you, but sometimes Christmas is downright scary for me! This week's writing prompts reflect how the holiday season can sometimes bring nightmare's instead of dreams come true. Whether it is chaos at family dinners, your child's expensive gift list, or hectic holiday shopping trips, write about YOUR Nightmare Before Christmas🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
1. The Dinner Guest: Write about a holiday dinner where a mysterious guest arrives. Nobody knows who invited them or who they even are, but they stir up a holiday nightmare.
2. The Blizzard: It is Christmas Eve and there is a torrential snowstorm outside. You are trapped inside a cabin with a mysterious group.
3. The Gift: Your main character opens the door on Christmas Eve to find a beautiful, wrapped gift, but not all gifts are given with good intentions.
4. The Party: Your story takes place during a holiday reunion party, but things take a dark turn when the organizer of the event has sinister intentions.
5. Secret Santa: Imagine your main character is peer pressured into participating in this year's secret Santa at work. Every day for the 10 days leading up to Christmas day, you are supposed to leave a secret gift for whoever's name you have drawn. On day 1 the gift your main character receives is a clue that the person that has drawn their name knows a very dark secret that your main character would rather not have get out.
6. The Christmas Bones: Long ago there was a witch that died on Christmas Eve. Set your story in the town where she was burned at the stake. It is 100 years later, and on each day of the 12 days of Christmas one of her bones appears somewhere in town. Once each of her 12 bones are found she will be able to return to wreak Christmas Havoc on the ancestors of those that persecuted her.
7. Start Your Story: Start your story with the phrase: My Nightmare Before Christmas.
8. The Christmas Doll: Your main character finds a beautiful antique Christmas doll to give her young niece this year. Soon it is discovered that an evil demon inhabits the doll and has until Christmas Day to find a body. Will it take over the little girl? Or will it be trapped inside the doll for good?
9. Easy Street: Your main character has always had life easy and plenty of money has been spent on them every year for Christmas, and they have also spent plenty of money on their own family during the holidays. This year however, instead of living on easy street, they wake up destitute. What can they do to fix it and land back on easy street?
10. No More Christmas: Set your story in a time where there is no such thing as a holiday season.
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