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Set your story on New Year's Day.

– 48 stories

Write about someone trying something completely new.

– 33 stories

Write a story about hope.

– 78 stories

Write about a character who has reinvented themselves, but realizes it's not always easy to outrun your past.

– 61 stories

Write a story in the form of a list of New Year's resolutions.

– 53 stories

Write a story in the form of a list.

– 59 stories

Write a story that hides something from its reader until the very end.

– 99 stories

Start your story with someone uttering a very strange sentence.

– 51 stories

Write a story in which a character achieves a new level of clarity about how they’re really feeling.

– 55 stories

Write a story framed by a single scene: something happens, a flashback or inner monologue intervenes, and then the story ends with the rest of the original scene.

– 89 stories

Write a story in which a character is stuck reliving their worst Christmas ever, over and over again.

– 35 stories

Start or end your story with a character finding out the love of their life is actually royalty.

– 18 stories

Write about a character who visits their hometown for the holidays and reconnects with a former love interest.

– 63 stories

Write a story in which a cynical character gets amnesia on Christmas Eve.

– 26 stories

Write about a festive party gone wrong that’s saved by some holiday magic.

– 24 stories

Write a story in which a character cooks up something to impress someone.

– 34 stories

Write a story in which a certain food makes your character travel back in time.

– 51 stories

Write a story in which a character eats something that they shouldn’t have eaten.

– 62 stories

Include in your story a scene about a family's last meal before a significant change.

– 58 stories

Start or end your story in a bustling street food market.

– 24 stories

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