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70 Christmas Writing Prompts for Teens: Story Starters, Characters, Settings & Visual Ideas

70 Christmas Writing Prompts for Teens: Story Starters, Characters, Settings & Visual Ideas

Christmas is a season full of contrasts — cozy fireplaces and glittering lights, but also mystery, magic, and the occasional bit of chaos. These prompts invite teen writers to explore the holiday across genres, from festive romance and fantasy adventures to gothic tales and eerie mysteries. With 70 story starters, titles, characters, settings, and picture prompts, this collection sparks creativity for classrooms or independent writing, offering fresh takes on the season that go far beyond the expected.

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70 Winter Writing Prompts for Teens: Story Starters, Characters, Settings & Visual Ideas

70 Winter Writing Prompts for Teens: Story Starters, Characters, Settings & Visual Ideas

Winter is more than just cold weather — it’s a season of stark beauty, hidden dangers, and powerful contrasts. From frozen forests and snowbound trains to icy queens and weary travelers, these prompts invite teen writers to explore survival, mystery, fantasy, and gothic tales shaped by winter’s grip. This collection of 70 prompts includes story starters, titles, characters, settings, and picture prompts, perfect for classrooms or independent writing.

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70 Steampunk Writing Prompts for Teens: Story Starters, Characters, Settings & Visual Ideas

70 Steampunk Writing Prompts for Teens: Story Starters, Characters, Settings & Visual Ideas

Steampunk is a genre where Victorian elegance collides with brass gears, steam engines, and strange inventions. It’s a world of daring skyship captains, masked vigilantes, rebellious inventors, and cities powered by impossible machines. For teen writers, steampunk opens the door to adventure, rebellion, and discovery in settings that feel both historical and futuristic. These 70 prompts include story starters, titles, characters, settings, and picture prompts to spark imagination in classrooms or independent writing.

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The Silent Directive: A Creative Writing Box Inspired by a World Without Sound
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The Silent Directive: A Creative Writing Box Inspired by a World Without Sound

What if silence wasn’t a choice, but the law? In our latest writing boxThe Silent Directive, citizens live under a regime where sound itself is treason. Broadcasts, memos, detention registers, and propaganda leaflets reveal a world where silence is loyalty, silence is safety, and silence is survival. Unlike my other writing boxes, this one doesn’t whisper secrets — it issues orders in plain sight.

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70 Fantasy Writing Prompts for Teens

70 Fantasy Writing Prompts for Teens

Let students build magical worlds and unforgettable characters with these 70 fantasy writing prompts for teens. From enchanted forests and forgotten prophecies to mysterious maps and celestial mirrors, this collection includes story starters, titles, character ideas, setting inspiration, and stunning visual prompts to spark imagination in any classroom.

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Inside the Victoriana Collection: A Writing Box of Mystery, History, and Creative Intrigue
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Inside the Victoriana Collection: A Writing Box of Mystery, History, and Creative Intrigue

The Victoriana Collection isn’t a set of writing prompts. It’s a mystery told through forgotten photographs, torn letters, and eerie clues from another time. If you’re the kind of writer who finds inspiration in texture, mood, and fragments, this box was made for you. Gothic, atmospheric, and open-ended - this is where your next story begins.

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