A Winter Tale

🙋‍♀️ Solo
🖨️ No printer required
🃏Deck of cards required 
📝 Writing game

Winter brings celebrations, magic, folklore, and grand tales. This winter is no different, but now it's on your shoulders to tell the magical, wintry tale!

Using a deck of cards, create a new winter tale. It might be a poem, short story, or even a song; it may take place in a big city or the North Pole; it might feature elves, snowmen, or Santa; and it may conceal an important meaning or purpose (or it may not!).

Perhaps your winter tale will live on for generations too, like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, or your favorite holiday movie! There's only one way to find out...

📣 The prompts are complete: now you can use the unused cards to set up your story and help with every step of the writing process!

Cozy Winter Jam 2023

This game was made for Cozy Winter Jam 2023, a 72-hour game jam. I didn't notice it started for the first 24 hours, and then I lost a good chunk of time in between, which meant I didn't quite finish this.

The second page —the page which will contain additional (optional) prompts— hasn't yet been made [Edit: I made all of the prompt tables now]. I also haven't written my blog about the game yet, and there are no screenshots, etc... [Edit: this is all done now too!]

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Play our other writing-prompt games!

We have loads of other solo journaling games in this list, including these poetry-writing prompt games that A Winter Tale is based on!