Christmas writing prompts

Christmas stories live in the wait. Pick a prompt, name the relative nobody wanted to invite, and let your group write Christmas Eve dinner.

  1. The family Secret Santa pulls every name out of the hat and they are all the cat.
  2. A small village hires a man to play Father Christmas and he refuses to leave.
  3. The grandparents announce they are getting divorced after the Queen's speech.
  4. A widower receives a Christmas card from his late wife.
  5. Two estranged siblings are snowed in at the family pub.
  6. Every Christmas tree in the town starts glowing the same colour.
  7. Father Christmas resigns mid-shift.
  8. The advent calendar opens onto a different year.

Write one of these together

Storybored is a turn-based story writing game for 2–4 players. Drop any prompt above into a new story, invite friends with a code, and write the next line each.

Start a story →

More prompts