
For many people, February is the month of love.
For me, it has a significance of a different kind, albeit still heart-related – because February is also International CHD Awareness Month, with 14 February being Sweetheart Day.
I’ve put together a set of prompts that riff off all of this.
While Valentine’s Day brings with it certain ideas about love, romance and hearts, I hope the prompts will also get you to dig deeper and beyond the cliches.
On a personal note, I’m currently writing a memoir/essay piece that I hope to develop further using these prompts.
As I suggested last month, feel free to use these prompts in whatever way they serve you including one or more of the following:
- use each prompt as a 7-minute writing warm up, keeping your hand moving across the page
- use one prompt per day, or one a week, or three to five words that appeal to you
- use a prompt to start a new piece of writing or art work
- write about a memory the word evokes or something you hope for in the future
- relate to your current protagonist or work-in-progress in some way
- use a prompt for a sketch, painting or any other creative form of your choice.
Creative Prompts
1. love
2. Valentine
3. heart
5. opposite
6. vein
7. roses
8. unromantic
9. grass roots
10. blue
12. softhearted
13. kindness
14. sweetheart
15. broken hearted
16. zipper
18. blood
19. oxygen
20. heartfelt
21. wound
22. scar
23. red
25. lead
26. star-crossed
27. softhearted
28. patchwork
Over to You
What will emerge as you embrace the process of turning up to your art?