This week’s creative writing prompts are all about dealing with severe winter weather.
Monday’s Prompt: The Blizzard’s Gift
A freak snowstorm blankets your small town overnight, leaving behind an impossible, glowing artifact in the center of the town square.
As the temperature drops further, you realize the artifact holds the key to surviving the winter—but at a cost.
What will you do?
Tuesday’s Prompt: Frozen Secrets
While clearing snow from the driveway, you stumble upon a patch of ice with something buried beneath it—an object, a letter, or perhaps a body.
As the cold tightens its grip on your town, you uncover a mystery that’s been frozen in time.
How will this discovery change your life?
Wednesday’s Prompt: The Cold War
An inexplicably harsh winter forces two bitter rivals to work together to save their isolated community.
As tempers flare and secrets are revealed, they discover the source of the endless winter is closer—and more personal—than they imagined.
Can they stop it before it’s too late?
Thursday’s Prompt: The Last Hearth
In a world where the sun has stopped shining, society has dwindled to scattered, freezing communities.
Your group survives by huddling around the last known source of heat, a mysterious fire that never goes out.
One night, the fire begins to shrink.
How far will you go to reignite it?
Friday’s Prompt: Voices in the Snow
Each night during an extended cold snap, you hear faint whispers outside your window, begging to be let in.
Your neighbors claim to hear them too, but they all insist the voices are from people who froze to death long ago.
Are the whispers real, and if so, will you answer them?
Saturday’s Prompt: Winter’s Wake
After an unprecedented freeze, your town wakes up to find every person over the age of 60 has vanished overnight, leaving behind only icy footprints leading into the forest.
As the younger generation struggles to survive the cold, strange dreams begin to reveal the truth of what happened—and why the same fate might soon befall the rest of you.
Sunday’s Prompt: The Shattered Frost
A sudden drop in temperature causes the lake near your home to freeze solid, trapping a mysterious ship beneath the ice.
When a group of locals decides to investigate, they discover the ship holds ancient, frostbitten beings who claim they came to help—but their intentions grow colder with each passing day.
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