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Great Expectations with Insecure Writer's Support Group

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In the form of diary/ journal entries, write about someone on a long-awaited trip.

Holiday – 56 stories

Write a short story about someone accomplishing one of their resolutions.

Holiday – 54 stories

Write a short story about someone reflecting on their previous year's resolutions.

Holiday – 33 stories

Write a short story about someone with unconventional New Year's traditions.

Holiday – 44 stories

Write a short story about a person who goes to bed on Valentine's Day and wakes up in 1920.

Holiday – 41 stories

Write a short story about an inn-keeper wondering whether this will be their last holiday season in business.

Holiday – 33 stories

You live in a neighborhood where lots of people go out of town for the holidays. But lately, this has been resulting in an increased number of break-ins.

Holiday – 23 stories

Write a story about a "chosen family" dinner, where no one is related by blood, but they still feel like family.

Holiday – 40 stories

Write about the best April Fool's Day prank that you could ever pull.

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It's Groundhog Day... and Punxsutawney Phil is missing.

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Write a story that only consists of New Year's Resolutions.

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Create a holiday of your own and write a story about it.

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Write a story that only consists of letters to Santa.

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The turkey is on the floor. Stuffing is stuck to the ceiling. The tree has been toppled over. The presents have been singed. What happened to cause this chaotic Christmas scene?

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You’re stuck in a time loop with the same holiday happening over and over — the only rule is that it can’t be Groundhog Day.

Holiday

You are the only person who has to go into work on a public holiday.

Holiday

An advertising firm lands a huge contract to make Easter the year’s most popular holiday.

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A shrewish woman is preventing her husband, the grand marshall of the Easter Day Parade, from leaving the house.

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A young girl wakes up on Christmas morning and realizes her house was broken into during the night. Somehow she manages to overcome the shock and disappointment.

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It's the night before Christmas. You are a stirring mouse in an otherwise totally quiet house.

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