Take a break from fiction and write your own Christmas stories.
If you celebrate Christmas, you know that memories of Christmas Past are as much a part of the season as the anticipation of Christmas Day. We love to tell the Christmas stories of our childhood, of college trips home, of the small and large sacrifices of early-married years, of our children’s escapades.
As writers, take a few moments this week and record the Christmas stories that only you can tell. Was there a time your family exchanged only homemade gifts? A Christmas trip with special memories?
Use your skills and make your Christmas memories well-written stories. Describe the smells, sounds, activities. Include dialogue as best you can, true to your memory but enjoyable to read, too.
Writing your Christmas stories makes it possible to hold onto them, both for you now and your children and grandchildren later. Print them and pass them around before next Christmas. Encourage other family members to do the same, whether they are writers or not.
You may enjoy buying Christmas novels by other authors (I do), but a treasury of your own stories is priceless.
