Wednesday 25 December 2019

A year of Writing Prompts: 25 December

How to use these prompts

Twin Santas!
Are they working together or competing against each other?
Who lives in the house behind them?



Prompts

  1. Bah! Humbug! Your character is someone who hates Christmas but is forced by family/friends/society to celebrate it anyway.
  2. Write about a totally unexpected Christmas gift.
  3. "Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." Charles Schultz
  4. In 1914, there was an impromptu cease fire when German and British soldiers came out of their trenches, wished each other merry Christmas, shook hands, shared food and even played football together. Sadly, they all went back to killing each other the next day. Write a story based around this event. One possibility is to speculate on how history might have changed if, the following day, those same soldiers had refused to go back to shooting at their new found friends.
  5. Write an account of the Nativity story from someone (or something, such as an animal) who witnessed it first hand.


Character Names
Eugenia, Stella, Larissa, Jesus, Anastasia, Stacy, Noel, Noelle


Character Traits
  • People born on this day cannot see spirits.
  • Always willing to open their hearts and their homes and help those in need. However, they risk those they help taking advantage of them.
  • Although hospitable, they can get lost in their own thoughts and appear to be isolated even at their own party.
  • Generous towards others but practice austerity for themselves. Likewise they can be hard on themselves while showing compassion towards others.
  • Self sufficient and happy to work alone.
  • Interested in science.
  • May have some kind of unusual, eccentric or unconventional interests.
  • Dislike pettiness and unnecessary social conventions.
  • Unlikely to be prejudiced against any race or religion.
  • Take decisive and uncompromising action against anything which gets in their way.
  • Arguments and road rage could prove to be their downfall.

Possible Themes
Hospitality, generosity.
Sense of hearing.
Team spirit.
Traffic.


Objects

Two open doors; a house; a tower with a small window; two tall trees; a cemetery; a canoe.

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