250+ Category: January Writing Prompts
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Resolutions Assessment
Evaluate the progress of your New Year’s resolutions and identify any changes to your behavior or lifestyle.
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Impact of Cold Temperatures
Explore how January’s cold weather affects your habits and daily routines.
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New Year’s Shift
Consider a new habit or routine you would like to establish this January in order to make the year more successful.
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January Reflections
Describe your most significant habit that you either developed or broke in the previous January.
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Lessons from Frozen Peaks
Write about a winter mountaineering expedition you embarked upon, whether real or fictional.
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Operation Snow Angel
Write about your adventures of making the biggest snow angel in your neighborhood.
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Survival in the Ice Apocalypse
Imagine a world where the coldest day in history never ends. How do you survive?
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Holiday Blues and Silver Linings
Discuss how you cope with post-holiday blues and spotlight the little things that help.
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Aftermath of the Gift Giving Frenzy
Reflect on the aftermath of gift-giving – how it felt to give and receive, and its deeper meanings.
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Retrospect of Goodbye to the Old Year
Think back upon the year that has just ended and write a farewell letter to it.
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Future Letters
Pen a letter to your future self detailing your hopes for the year ahead, based on your New Year’s resolution.
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Inversion Inspiration
Instead of identifying something to change or achieve, write about habits or traits you appreciate about yourself and resolve to maintain.
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Purpose of Resolution
Explain why you chose a specific New Year’s resolution and its importance to you.
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Resolution Retrospection
Reflect on last year’s New Year’s resolutions and evaluate your progress and setbacks.
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Prompt Ends & Fresh Starts
Write about an end that occurred last year and how it has opened the door to a fresh start in this new year.
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New Year’s Letter From Future Self
Imagine receiving a letter from yourself a year from now, detailing all your accomplishments and growth. What does it say?
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Midnight Epiphanies
Recall and write about an epiphany you had during a past New Year’s midnight moment.
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Revolution Resolutions
Write about a resolution you are setting for the new year and discuss why it is significant for you.
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Predict a Happy Adventure
Imagine an adventure you could have in the coming year and describe it in detail.
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Detox and Renew
Describe a habit or relationship you want to detox from in the New Year and how you plan to replace it.
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Letter to Future Self
Pen a letter to your future self detailing your hopes, dreams, and fears for the forthcoming year.
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Reflections and Resolutions
Write about the year just gone and the resolutions you have made for the New Year.
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First Day Forecast
Imagine it’s the first day of the year and predict how the coming year will look for you.
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The Final Frost
Write a poem about the feelings you experience when seeing the last frost of winter.
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New Year, New Pages
Write about your New Year resolutions and how you plan on implementing them in 2022.
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The Power of Habit
Explain a habit you want to implement this year and why. Then, develop a plan to integrate this habit into your routine.
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New Year Optimism
Write about your goals and dreams for the new year ahead, and lay out the steps you plan to take to achieve them.
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Channeling Inner Strength
Consider a challenging event in your life and how you summoned the willpower to overcome it.
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Guardian of Motivation
Create a fictional character who embodies the concept of ‘motivation’. Discuss their personal traits, their strengths, their weaknesses, and their story.
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Resolution Evolution
Describe a resolution you made in the past, and discuss how the process of accomplishing or failing to accomplish this goal affected you.
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Layered Strength
Write about the multiple ‘layers’ of strength and will power that help you endure and flourish even in the coldest winter of adversities.
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Chasing Sunlight
Write about ways to bring positivity and ‘sunlight’ into your life during the drearier mid-winter months.
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Mid-Winter Resilience
Consider a time you felt resilient during a difficult period and detail what strategies were effective in that situation.
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Defrosting Dreams
Write out a dream or aspiration you have had that may have cooled or been put ‘on ice,’ and explore potential actions to reignite it.
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Melting Ice Goals
Write about a goal that feels ‘frozen’ at the moment and explore ways to ‘melt the ice’
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North Star Narratives
Imagine a society that makes key decisions based on the movement and appearance of one specific star.
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Underneath the Constellation
Write a poem about the emotions evoked while stargazing on a long winter night.
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New Year’s Resolution
Craft a story centred around a character making a resolution under the first star on New Year’s night.
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Guiding Star
Write about a time when you felt lost, and then found your metaphorical ‘north star’ to guide you out of the situation.
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Star-Crossed Story
Imagine two characters from different worlds who are only able to communicate when a unique star is visible in the night sky.
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Snow Angel Chronicles
Write about a moment, either real or imagined, where you’ve made a snow angel.
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Frosty Reflections
Describe the sight of a pristine, snow-blanketed landscape from the warmth of your home.
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Conversations with the Night
Write a letter to the night itself, expressing your thoughts, fears, and hopes.
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New Year’s Eve Retrospect
Describe a New Year’s Eve tradition from your past and what it means to you now.
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Winter’s Gratitude
Create a list of things you are grateful for this winter, including moments, people, objects, or feelings.
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New Year Resolutions
Jot down five resolutions you want to set for the new year, as well the steps you’ll take to achieve them.
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January Reflections
Write a reflection on the past year, documenting key lessons learned, triumphs and trials.
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Resolute Reflections
Review and reflect upon the resolutions you made last January. How many were achieved, altered, or abandoned and why?
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Introspective January
Reflect on what January means for you. Does it symbolize a fresh start, the continuation of winter, or something else?
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A Fresh Start Story
Create a fictional piece about a character who views January as a period of rebirth and transformation.
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Replaying January’s Tape
Write a day-by-day reflection journal detailing your experiences, emotions and lessons learned in January.
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January’s Resolutions versus Reality
Write a narrative contrasting your New Year’s resolutions and their actual outcomes by the end of January.
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Manifest Your January
Pen a letter from your future self, discussing how you successfully accomplished your January goals.
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New Year, New Goals
Define new personal goals for the year and break them down into achievable steps for January.
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Past Year Reflection
Reflect on the past year and write about the most significant life lessons you learned.
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The Hibernation Chronicles
Narrate experiences of a creature hibernating throughout winter and its awakening to spring
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Whispers of Winter
Write a short story where important messages and secrets are revealed through unique snowflake patterns.
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Crystal Kingdom
Visualise a kingdom entirely made of ice and snow and describe its breathtaking beauty.
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Winter’s Canvas
You wake up one morning to find your small town completely blanketed in snow overnight. Write about this transformation and how it changes your perception.
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Frozen Solitude
Imagine you’re the last person on Earth in a world that’s constantly covered in ice and snow. Tell your story.
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Icicle’s Timeline
Create a story from the perspective of an icicle, chronicling its formation, life, and eventual thaw.
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Silent Snowfall
Dive deep into the feeling of standing outside during a calm, peaceful snowfall, and the thoughts it generates.
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Mirrored in Ice
Describe an event or moment in your life reflected in the surface of a frozen lake or pond.
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Winter’s Whisper
Write a story from the perspective of Winter, detailing what it thinks and feels like to transform the world into frost and ice.
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Frosty Footprints
Draft an imaginary journey through a snow-covered landscape, leaving a trail of unique footprints in your wake.
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A Fresh Perspective
Write about a situation where you changed your perspective leading to a new start.
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Leap of Faith
Pen down a thought about taking a leap of faith and starting a new venture, be it a business, relationship, or hobby.
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New Year Resolutions
Write about New Year resolutions you’d like to adopt, modify from the past, or remove.