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 out a quiet moment in a work in progress or a story you know well in which one character shows, through their actions, that they love someone else. Neither the character(s) nor the prose may explicitly state or describe feelings of any kind.

Subscribe to the podcast for a ten-minute writing exercise every day! 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.