You could also try to send a Valentine’s Day appreciation to the people who have played important roles in your life. Or, answer our Student Opinion question, “ What Does the World Need to Know About an Important Person in Your Life?” that was inspired by a popular Modern Love essay, “ You May Want to Marry My Husband.”
Use these drawings, letters, poems, telegrams and letters created by famous New Yorkers as inspiration. Write a love letter - to your crush, a friend, a pet, a place or even a favorite possession. Have you ever imagined your own wedding? Could Following These Directions Make You Fall in Love With a Stranger? Is Hookup Culture Leaving Your Generation Unhappy and Unprepared for Love? How Important Do You Think It Is to Marry Someone With the Same Religion? What’s the Best Way to Heal a Broken Heart? What Are the Basic ‘Rules’ for Handling Breakups? Should Your Significant Other Be Your Best Friend? Do You Find It Hard to Say ‘I Love You’? How Do You Think Technology Affects Dating? (Please note: those published on our old site are no longer open for comment.) Respond to our love-and-romance-related writing prompts. Use the 21 sentence starters, adapted from Times essays and articles about love and relationships, that we’ve compiled in our Passion Prompts: Sentence Starters for Writing About Relationships to get started on your own fiction or nonfiction piece. Watch love stories via Modern Love videos, like the one below: In 2018 one of our winning teams was a teenage couple, Quinn Page and Bailey Osborne, who explored the question, Should your significant other be your best friend? If you get really inspired and want to make your own, consider submitting it to our annual Student Podcast Contest this spring. Or, listen to love with the Modern Love podcast - and find a Reader Idea about using those podcasts to teach narrative writing. And if the longer essays are too challenging as models, try the “ Tiny Love Stories,” each no more than 100 words. Use these stories or the weekly Modern Love column - in which essayists write about relationships with romantic partners, family members, friends or even beloved animals - as inspiration for your own essays, stories and poems. In this piece, people share stories of breakups and bad dates. In this article ten New Yorkers tell short personal stories of love and enchantment in the City. Write Personal Essays, Stories and Poems about Relationships