In the US, we celebrate Valentine’s Day in February. This day is usually seen as a celebration of romantic love, but love is a many-splendored thing. We love our parents, we love our pets, we love writing, we love New York. This month we’ll be writing about love in all its forms.

For today’s ten-minute writing exercise:

Write a series of loving notes sent daily to a loved one who is going through a hard time. It can be a lover, but it could also be a parent, a child, a sibling, a dear friend. Over the course of the story, hint at the cause of the hard time but do not state it explicitly.

Our themes this month are:

• Love in all its forms
• Dialogue
• Comedy Writing Step by Step by Gene Perret

We will also write a complete work of flash fiction together in a week from Feb 17 – Feb 23. No pre-work needed, and as always, zero homework outside of our ten minutes a day. This month we’ll use Dan Harmon’s story circles method to plan out our stories.