Love is in the air this month for everyone, including your writing group. We’ve all experienced love and heartache, from the love for a new born child, to the love for our parents, the heady heights of teenage first love and that first rejection to finding ‘the one’, and new love after divorce. All the emotions are there – excitement, butterflies fluttering in the stomach, anxiety, happiness, longing, joy, etc, so why not use them to their best advantage in your writing?
For the first activity, we are going to think about love in its abstract form. When we say I love that or I love it when, what do we mean? Ask the group to write down something they love. It could be anything from a person, a pet, a food item, a piece of music, a place, a piece of art, a book, a movie or a hobby. Ask them to read it out and explain how their chosen person or thing makes them feel. If they could separate the ingredients of that feeling and bottle it, what would be in the bottle?