50 Abominable Snowman  and Snowstorms Writing Prompts

Dig into these 50 abominable snowman  and snowstorms writing prompts before heading out into the drifts. The wind howls outside your foggy window, the fireplace dimly crackles, and strange noises seem to creep from the darkest corners of the room. There’s no better time to let your imagination wander into the blank, snowy unknown.

Winter conjures a special sort of eerie beauty. In the spirit of the season, I’ve gathered 50 writing prompts featuring two things that make Jack Frost nipping at your nose even more bone-chilling: mythical yeti-like beasts and treacherous, bone-chilling snowstorms.

You’ll find supernatural tales of massive snow creatures stalking remote mountain passes during whiteouts. Imaginings of blizzards battering lonely cabins harboring ancient secrets. And don’t forget the abandoned ski resorts where spectral shapes roam the icy landscape when the flakes really start to fly.

So grab a mug of hot cocoa, wrap yourself in a fuzzy blanket, and let these wintry writing prompts guide you into penning deliciously dark fiction and poetry this season. The world outside may be fully frozen over – but your imagination is just thawing out

Here are 50 writing prompts about the abominable snowman and snowstorms:

1. You wake up one morning to find huge footprints in the snow outside your window. Where do they lead?
2. A blizzard hits while you’re driving through a remote mountain pass. Your car gets stuck and you have to seek shelter – where do you go? What do you find there?
3. You find a snow globe in an antique shop that seems to predict upcoming snowstorms. What happens when you shake it?
4. During a fierce snowstorm, you spot a towering, furry white creature lumbering through the woods. Do you follow it?
5. An overnight blizzard buries your town in 5 feet of snow. When you wake up, everything is quiet and still. There are no plows, no people – nothing. It’s as if you’re the only one left.
6. You volunteer to work at a ski lodge on a remote mountain over winter break. One night during a bad storm, the power goes out. What happens next?
7. Your plane crashes in the Himalayas during a snowstorm. The only shelter is a cave that shows signs of inhabitants. Do you risk entering?
8. You find a magical snow globe that when shaken, whisks you away to the North Pole. What do you discover there?
9. Caught in a blizzard, you find shelter in a tiny, abandoned cabin. Inside is a journal that tells a terrifying tale about the abominable snowman.
10. An overnight snowstorm causes an avalanche that blocks the roads through the mountain pass. You’re stuck in a small village until it can be cleared – if it can be cleared.
11. You’re ice fishing on a frozen mountain lake when a snowstorm blows in. In the whirling snow, you spot a tall, humanoid figure approaching your ice shelter.
12. A snow globe in an antique shop continually shows the same little cottage in the woods, surrounded by swirling snow. When you touch it, you’re transported inside the snow globe.
13. You’re hired to take pictures of wildlife in the Himalayas. One night, your motion-activated camera captures an image of something huge lumbering through your camp.
14. You find yourself inexplicably drawn to an abandoned ski resort. As you explore the empty lodge, it’s almost as if the snowbound ghost town is stuck in time.
15. An extreme blizzard hits a scientific research base high in the Arctic. With temperatures plunging and snow piling up, the base loses contact with the outside world.
16. You sign up for a crypto-zoology class at your university focused on researching mythical snow beasts like the abominable snowman. But your first field assignment gets far more dangerous than expected when you actually find fresh tracks in the remote wilderness.
17. You take refuge from a violent snowstorm in an enormous cave high up a mountainside. Only too late do you realize you are not alone inside, as a towering shape detaches itself from the shadows.
18. Your plane crashes in the Himalayas, and the only shelter is a series of ice caves that have strange carvings of ape-like creatures all over the walls.
19. Your car breaks down during a blizzard on a remote, mountain highway. Seeking help at a nearby ski lodge, you find it abandoned and partially buried under snow. Inside are signs of recent habitation.
20. You’re hiking through knee-deep snow when a sudden whiteout swallows the wilderness. Lost in the blizzard, you stumble across huge, humanlike tracks that simply stop in the middle of nowhere. Where did the creature go? Why can’t you find any more tracks?
21. An ice storm coats everything in glassy ice, encasing your snowed-in village under a glittering, frozen shell. Venturing out into the magical landscape, you spot something massive crossing the icy fields towards town.
22. Your snowcat breaks down in a whiteout. Barely able to see, you head towards faint lights in the abyssal whiteness. Have you found refuge, or are you walking blindly into greater danger?
23. Frantic, a half-frozen stranger appears at your door begging for help after his snowmobile crashes. Once inside, he babbles wildly about a towering beast that ran him off the mountain.
24. You survive a plane crash high in the frozen peaks only to confront the terrible snow creature that has been following survivors through the blizzard…picking them off one by one. It’s your turn to be hunted next.
25. Ice fishing on a remote, frozen lake, you reel up a strange relic from the icy depths – an ancient snow globe with a cryptic engraving. “Those who wake the white wanderer unmake this world entire…”
26. An overnight blizzard leaves your mountain village cut off from civilization. When the snowplow finally arrives, the driver is nearly catatonic with terror. All he will say is “the white wanderer walks once more!”
27. Your car skids off an icy cliffside road, crashing onto a narrow ledge. Unable to climb up or down without ropes and gear, you face either freezing to death or braving the abandoned mineshaft carved into the mountainside behind you.
28. You sign up to participate in an arctic endurance experiment that locks you in a simulated blizzard environment for one month. But soon, the line between what’s real and simulated begins to blur as a towering, white-furred shape lurks at the perimeter.
29. Caught in a deadly Himalayan whiteout without supplies, you crawl into an icy crevasse seeking shelter. Only then do you realize this was the lair of the legend. Now you must confront the abominable snowman itself!
30. While skiing out of bounds, you discover a remote, abandoned chalet. Inside you find a snow globe that constantly shifts between benign winter scenes and a towering humanoid monster lost in a blizzard.
31. Your uncle leaves you a strange artifact – an ornate lantern engraved with Yeti-like creatures frolicking in the snow. When you light it during a raging blizzard, a portal into the lamp’s world opens in your fireplace.
32. You’re hired to investigate a missing persons cold case at an exclusive ski resort. The higher up the mountains you travel, the darker local folk tales become until you’re no longer certain what’s lurking out there in the snow.
33. A freak blizzard collapses the cavern entrance while you’re searching for gold, trapping you underground. Digging through snowed-under passages, you discover you aren’t alone. There’s something haunting the frozen caves…
34. Your snowcat train outruns an early winter storm, only to get trapped in an avalanche. When an inhuman howl echoes through the mountains, you realize you’re now prey to the Alpine phantom said to prowl these peaks.
35. Longing for inspiration, you take residence in an abandoned mountainside chalet during the harshest winter on record. Snowbound and alone, you feel the stirrings of creation. But are you really alone up here?
36. Driving across Alaska, you pick up a hitchhiker fleeing down from the oil fields. He claims the men at his remote work camp unlocked an ancient evil that came wandering down from the highest peaks one blizzardy night.
37. You fall asleep during a wilderness snowcoach tour. When you wake up separated from the group, enormous footprints are your only guide back through a building whiteout. But what left these tracks that dwarf your own?
38. You volunteer to work at a remote Himalayan monastery over winter. But the monks are acting strange as reports come in of an ominous shape stalking travelers along the lonely mountain passes during snowstorms.
39. Caught in a sudden Arctic whiteout without shelter or supplies, you stumble through ever-deepening snow until the faint glow of emergency flares leads you to a scientific outpost. But why would they launch flares during a storm? And why does their equipment register a approaching mass far bigger than any research team?
40. You are a cryptozoologist researching rumored abominable snowman sightings when your snowcat goes off a cliff during a freak blizzard. Stranded, critically injured, and miles from help, you nonetheless spot an elusive creature lumbering through the storm towards you. Have your dreams of scientific credibility arrived – or your worst nightmares?
41. Your remote mountain village houses a temple said to contain ancient relics with the power to summon snow demons. When a severe blizzard hits after centuries of fine weather, you discover the new outsider visitor has stolen an artifact in order to photograph the legendary monsters.
42. You lead hiking tours through the Himalayas. But this season’s unnaturally fierce storms are driving even your experienced native guides to refuse going higher up the peaks. What are they so afraid of finding out there in the snow?
43. You run a struggling ski lodge that was the site of a grisly snow beast attack decades ago. Locals say the killings enraged the spirit of the mountain. And now, with the worst blizzard in years bearing down on the empty lodge, you have never felt more isolated and vulnerable.
44. Driving alone through the mountains on Christmas Eve, your car spins off an icy overlook, crashing down a wooded hillside into a snowbank. Injured, with no cell reception, you glimpse a tall, white shape peering down through the ever-thickening blizzard.
45. Your snowcat train outruns the fast-approaching storm, but gets buried when the whole mountainside gives way. Digging your way out through tons of heavy, wet snow, the passengers begin to realize you’ve disrupted something that was lying dormant under the glacier ice.
46. Your uncle leaves you a mansion in his will on the condition you live there one winter season. Nestled high in the Alps accessible only by a private train, the sprawling chateau holds centuries of family secrets. And the snowstorms here seem particularly…alive.
47. You lead a team of Iditarod mushers when an avalanche separates you from the pack, leaving you stranded in a remote gorge. As night falls and a winter storm builds, your huskies stare and growl nervously into the gloom beyond your headlamp’s reach. What’s out there stalking you?
48. Your train breaks down in a howling blizzard miles from the nearest station. Trying to hike through whiteout conditions towards faint lights in the distance, you stumble across railcars buried under drifts of snow. Inside are artifacts hinting at a terrible snow creature’s origins.
49. You discover old film reels that show your snowbound village’s original settlers fleeing some large, marauding creature into the mountains one harsh winter. Comparing the footage to modern aerial surveys, those fleeing footsteps lead directly towards your current neighborhood…
50. Working a ski patrol overnight shift, you see emergency flares fired from a black-diamond run that’s still closed. Investigating during the building storm, you discover signs of torn fabric, blood, and massive footprints disappearing under fresh powder. Tracking the footsteps leads you deep into deadly avalanche terrain – as does the distant scream echoing through the mountains.

Whether you’re looking to spin a terrifying tale or pen a winter wonderland reverie, let your creativity wander into snowy new territory with these 50 abominable snowman and blizzard writing prompts. Just be careful not to get lost in the flurries! When the icy inspiration strikes, mark your creative prints in the fresh page before you. And who knows – maybe you’ll craft the next bone-chilling story or poem about mysterious beasts stirring in snowbound cabins as the frost piles up outside. If you enjoyed these prompt, please leave us a comment. If you want more writing prompts, we have many on our site.