Monday, December 15, 2014
Writing Prompt: Dystopian Christmas
It's been a while since I've done a dystopian post, and I was trying to think if there was any way to combine the themes of dystopia and Christmas. I didn't come up with much, but I thought it would make a good writing prompt.
How could you combine the themes of dystopian and Christmas?
I thought maybe you could do a story where your dystopia actually revolved around Christmas. Or the lack thereof. So maybe it could be a world where Christmas means something completely different than it does to us. Maybe people are expected to give gifts, but there was a steep human cost for the giving of these gifts.
It would be interesting if the idea of Christmas actually struck fear into people's hearts.
I don't know. Just hashing out ideas.
Or, you could go this route:
(Source, left pic. Source, right pic.)
That could be interesting as well.
What do you think? How would you write a story that combined the themes of Christmas and dystopia?
How could you combine the themes of dystopian and Christmas?
I thought maybe you could do a story where your dystopia actually revolved around Christmas. Or the lack thereof. So maybe it could be a world where Christmas means something completely different than it does to us. Maybe people are expected to give gifts, but there was a steep human cost for the giving of these gifts.
It would be interesting if the idea of Christmas actually struck fear into people's hearts.
I don't know. Just hashing out ideas.
Or, you could go this route:
(Source, left pic. Source, right pic.)
That could be interesting as well.
What do you think? How would you write a story that combined the themes of Christmas and dystopia?
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Those are some creative ideas!
ReplyDeleteThanks Alex! :D
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