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Let’s write some enticing premises for randomized Hallmark holiday movies!
During the last stream, a subscribers requested that we write some random Hallmark Christmas story premises.
Watch a short version of the stream here or scroll down for what we wrote.
RANDOM Hallmark Christmas Story Premises
- Everybody has seen the ridiculously cheesy Christmas movies that play this time of year on the Hallmark channel
- So we used a Hallmark Christmas story auto-generator to get some random prompts, then came up with enticing premises for them
Here’s the first prompt that chat voted for:
A celebrated novelist with writer’s block just wants to get away from it all for some inspiration. They meet a librarian on the hunt for a first edition copy of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. You need their help to give your ailing grandmother one last Christmas to remember (and you fall in love in the process).
Here’s what we came up with as the premise to entice moms to watch it:
Benji has it all. Popular online, he’s a self-published YA urban-fantasy author with an almost cult-like following. But, after the success of his popular Lotus Lovers series, he’s suddenly found himself without any new ideas, and thousands of thirsty fans. Searching for inspiration, he gets away from it all, hoping to karate chop that writer’s block!
What Benji doesn’t know is that the little Rhode Island lighthouse library he hides away in has the biggest distraction possible. Saul, the disabled reference librarian and antique aficionado, wheels around using his toned upper body muscles to restock the stacks, but whenever Benji tries to talk to him, he only gets glares. Saul knows who Benji is, and he hates YA and especially the Lotus Lovers series, since that’s all patrons ever request anymore.
Suddenly Benji’s goal isn’t to write a love story, but to live one. He searches for a first edition copy of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to impress Saul and win him over, but the lighthouse’s magical talking cat Patty has other ideas.
Will Benji learn the beauty of the classics, and Saul the passion of pop culture lit? Let’s just say this: the rhode only goes one way here — to rhomance, in “A Christmas Dicken.”
And of course, the movie cover, made with auto-generated faces for the characters.
Next up was this prompt, where chat filled in random adjectives and nouns:
A [fluffy] [traffic warden] returns to his small town at Christmas time to [acquire poetry] and magically falls in love with a [wooden] [horticulturalist].
Here’s what we came up with:
Ryan is totally stressed out working as a traffic warden in New York City. With Christmas on the brain, he accidentally mixes up the red and green signals, and gets hit by a taxi cab. Thankfully saved by his embarrassingly massive amounts of body hair, he’s given two weeks medical leave and sent back to the one place he swore he’d never return: mom’s cabin in Littleton, Vermont.
Sitting in bed, being spoon-fed lukewarm hot chocolate by his overly adoring mother, Ryan thinks things can’t get any worse, until peg-legged Cathy shows up. She’s there to fix the leaky roof, but as a horticulturist — or a licensed forestry artist as she calls it — she plugs up the hole with moss and spider ivy. Great, now there’s a leak, and his room smells like a swamp.
To distract himself, Ryan turns to his first love: poetry. He tries to purge his pain through the tip of his pen, and to his surprise, Cathy has a green thumb for writing too, and she isn’t afraid to stick it in new, exciting places.
Together, Cathy tells Ryan that she loves his massive man-forest and he has nothing to be ashamed of, and he tells her that he loves the curves of her wooden peg-leg. Turns out, she carves the names of all her lovers into it… and Ryan’s would be the first.
Will they cultivate creative writing together, or will Ryan’s overbearing mother put some ice cubes in their hot chocolate? Find out in, “Knock On Wood.”
I think this movie cover really sells it.
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