Summary

Steffany Ritchie has challenged herself to publish a piece of writing daily for the next 30 days on Medium, focusing on holiday-themed prompts, and invites others to join the challenge using the hashtag #Christmaswritingchallenge.

Abstract

Steffany Ritchie, a writer on Medium, has embarked on a personal challenge to publish a new piece of writing every day for 30 days, beginning before the traditional holiday period due to her anticipation of a busy Christmas season. This challenge is designed to overcome a recent period of writer's block and to revitalize her readership. She has created a series of Christmas-themed writing prompts to inspire both herself and others to write, encouraging participation from the Medium community through the use of the hashtag #Christmaswritingchallenge. The prompts cover a wide range of topics, from personal holiday experiences and traditions to broader questions about the season, including reflections on non-Christmas holidays like Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Ritchie acknowledges that not everyone enjoys Christmas and welcomes diverse perspectives, including those who may not celebrate the holiday. She also provides a referral link for Medium membership and a way to support her through Ko-fi donations.

Opinions

Steffany Ritchie admits to not being a great self-starter and recognizes the challenge of maintaining consistent writing output, especially during the holidays.
She expresses a personal struggle with writer's block and sees this challenge as a way to break free from it.
Ritchie is open to and interested in hearing about various holiday traditions and experiences, not limited to Christmas.
She is aware that the holiday season can be difficult or lonely for some and is inclusive of these perspectives in her writing challenge.
Ritchie's enthusiasm for the holiday season is evident, but she also acknowledges that not everyone shares the same sentiment, including her spouse, whom she humorously describes as "a bit of a grinch."
The writer values community engagement and moral support, inviting others to join the challenge and share their stories.
She is transparent about the benefits of using her referral link for Medium membership, indicating that she receives a portion of the membership fee.
Ritchie shows appreciation for support in the form of Ko-fi donations, suggesting that financial support for creators is important to her.

30 December(ish) Writing Prompts

I’m publishing something here at Medium every day for the next 30 days, feel free to join in or take a prompt and run with it!

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I have set myself the challenge to publish once a day for the next 30 days here at Medium. It’s something that always seemed too daunting for me personally, but with reads as thin on the ground as they have ever been (for me anyway!) I figure if not now when? Also I have been in a bit of a writer’s rut lately, this is me forcing myself out of that with a jingle belled boot! I wrote about it more here:

I’m Going to Publish Something Every Day Between Now and Christmas Because Why Not?

Get ready for some ring a ding dirge, dusty drafts and holiday hokum

steffanyritchie.medium.com

Please feel free to join in, I have created the tag #Christmaswritingchallenge

I KNOW it’s not December yet, we don’t have Thanksgiving where I live in my defense. I am not a great self starter, tend to be a chaotic mess the week before Christmas/know my limits, so I am jumping the gun to make sure I do the damn thing. It’s just a 30 day writing challenge really, start whenever, take a prompt or three or however many you feel like writing!

Christmas Writing Challenge Prompts 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎅🎄🎄🎄

City Sidewalks: any fun memories of living in or visiting a big smoke at the holidays?

2. Country Christmas: on the flip side, does a country Christmas mean something special to you? Even if it’s just something you’ve thought about or wished for.

3. Your Worst Christmas: We’ve all had them?

4. Favorite Christmas/holiday season films?

5. Favorite Christmas tv show episodes?

6. Favorite Christmas songs/albums?

7. What is December like for anyone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas? I would love to hear more about Hannakah or Kwanzaa or an other non Christmas focused points of view.

8. Your most magical Christmas?

9. Write a poem or story about the winter wonderland season!

10. Do you enjoy all of the socializing in December or does it stress you out?

11. Is this a hard or lonely time of year for you?

12. Have you ever been sledding or ice skating?

13. The best/worst present you ever received?

14. Any unique to your family Christmas traditions?

15. A special memory that is random about the holiday season?

16. Not a fan of Christmas? Let’s hear why! As a Christmas-a-holic married to a bit of a grinch these opinions matter to me!

17. Memorable Christmas party mishaps and mayhem?

18. Also New Year’s Eve, yay or nay/memorable stories?

19. Tips on thoughtful gift buying?

20. Real trees or fake? (or none!)

21. Christmas foods you love (or loathe!)?

22. Christmases around the world — have you spent Christmas in a foreign country?

23. Your favorite festive book?

24. Decorations of white? Are you a Christmas décor maximalist or Scandi style minimalist?

25. Holiday travel disasters?

26. Have you ever worked a seasonal/Christmas job? How was that?

27. How did you find out Santa wasn’t real?

28. Write a letter to someone you can’t be with at Christmas.

29. What is the funniest or strangest thing that ever happened to you at Christmas?

30. Do you feel the Christmas spirit? Doesn’t have to be religious, whatever it means to you.

These are just a few ideas, not everything I write in my 30 day challenge is going to be holiday related (I don’t think, I was surprised I came up with all of these!), but I thought I would throw some festive prompt ideas into the mix for anyone interested in joining in with the hashtag.

This is just a fun challenge (lol keep telling myself that!) I am setting for myself but if anyone wants to use the hashtag with any of these prompts without doing the 30 day thing please feel free, I could use all the moral support/fun reading I can get!

Also feel free to write using the hashtag with whatever you feel like writing, hopefully they will be holiday season-ish but no worries if not. Hope that makes sense, I am making this up as I go in case it wasn’t stupidly obvious! 😊

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