December is here! Another year has come and gone, and with the holiday season about to shift into high gear, it’s a great time for some more “What If?” Writing Prompts! This week’s batch of prompts once again centers around the theme of the holidays. See what holiday stories you can write from these ideas! Enjoy!
What if… instead of giving presents, Christmas centered around a tradition of doing good deeds?
What if… your family only celebrated a made-up non-commercial holiday like Festivus in December?
What if… you received a mysterious Christmas present from a relative who had passed away?
What if… one Hanukkah, you and your family played a mystery game in which you’d get one new clue every night until someone won?
What if… every year, at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, you had the power to make it January 1st of any year in history, but had to live that entire year until the following New Year’s Eve?
Good luck writing more stories about the holidays!
If you have any “What If?” writing prompt suggestions (for any theme), please feel free to share them in the comments below. Ideas I like may be featured in future “What If?” posts, with full credit and a link to your blog (if you have one)! Also, if you’ve written a piece based on an idea you’ve found here, be sure to link back to the respective “What If?” post. I would love to see what you’ve done with the prompt! Thank you!
For the last What If, I’d like to go back the year 1971 so I can tell my parents to buy stock in a little start up called Intel. If they had we’d have enough money to buy the entire state of South Dakota, or a two bedroom hovel in the San Francisco.
Haha, that’s a clever idea! Of course, if the Back to the Future movies have taught us anything (especially the second one in this case), it’s that you can’t be too careful with time travel! Still, after such a crazy year, I’d definitely be tempted to go back to a simpler time… Thanks for reading! 🙂
And since I was born in 1970, I’d have to find another way to get the message to my parents. Imagine their shock from seeing their baby boy suddenly a middle aged man. 😀 Too complicated, I’ll let it be.
I really like the last idea! But as Robert pointed out, time travel’s a tricky business. Such stories always make my head ache. =)
So true! Time travel stories are incredibly hard to write well. How they made an entire trilogy of movies about it that holds together, I’ll never know! Thanks for reading! 🙂