Valentine’s Day in Retrospect Prompts

Midwestern blizzards, Valentine’s Day, President’s Day–no matter how you feel about it all, here’s to hoping yours went/are going well. * * * WRITING PROMPT: A Day of ValentinesFeel free…

Midwestern blizzards, Valentine's Day, President's Day--no matter how you feel about it all, here's to hoping yours went/are going well.

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WRITING PROMPT: A Day of Valentines
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Take your best--or worst--Valentine's Day experience, and reveal it in scene.

-And/Or-

It was Valentine's Day. You took your date to a movie--only it wasn't the Valentine's Day epic you had imagined, and what happened in the seat in front of you only reinforced that.

Zachary Petit is a freelance journalist and editor, and a lifelong literary and design nerd. He's also a former senior managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine. Follow him on Twitter @ZacharyPetit.