Writing inspiration can be found all around you. In the winter months, use these writing prompts to find creative ideas for your fiction or overcome writer's block.
Winter can be a great source of writing inspiration. Below are some winter-inspired writing prompts to use for character development, plot ideas or overcoming writer's block.
- One of your characters is driving during a snowstorm when his or her car breaks down. It's late and he or she is in an unfamiliar part of town. How does your character handle the situation?
- What was your most memorable experience during the winter? What made it so important to you?
- Two of your characters are spending a winter weekend housesitting for a friend at an isolated cottage in the country. They hear a knock at the door and answer it. It is an elderly man wearing no gloves or hat, even though it is freezing outside. He says he is a neighbour from a mile down the road and his furnace has broken. Write about what happens next.
- Imagine you are standing in the middle of a frozen river when you begin to hear it crack. Write about how you feel and what you do.
- You are walking back to your car after some holiday shopping when you notice a young boy in the parking lot. He approaches you and says his mother's car won't start. The boy says his mother is parked far away and you will have to drive him there. What happens next?
- Write a New Year's resolution for each of your characters.
- Write a scene from a favourite holiday movie, replacing one of its characters with one of your own. How would the movie change if your character was in it?
- Freewrite for five minutes using the phrase, "My skates seemed to fly out from under me in slow motion . . ."
- In Robertson Davies' novel Fifth Business, a child throws a snowball with a stone in it. The snowball hits the wrong person, setting off a chain of events that affects the narrator for the rest of his life. Imagine that you throw a snowball with a stone in it and write about the sequence of events.
- You receive a phone call from someone who says only, "I've buried it inside the snowman across the street. Don't let me down" and hangs up. Write about your reaction and what you do next.
These are just a few of the ways the season can help you find creative ideas for your writing. Make yourself a cup of hot chocolate, get out your writer's notebook and use these winter writing prompts to help you find creative inspiration.
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