We had a wonderful response on Mastodon to May’s #LoveMakeShare prompts and I am delighted we’re doing it again! Apologies to the participants who may have been waiting for the full list – life delayed me getting it posted. But here we are! Please join me and some truly wonderful creative people on Mastodon and (if I remember) over on Bluesky by using the hashtag #LoveMakeShare when you respond to the prompts.
- Welcome to a new month! Do you have any fresh creative goals for June? Are you carrying over any from May? Starting or planning to finish a project?
- Happy pride, everyone! Do queer themes, identities, characters, etc. feature in your work? Any that you’re particularly proud of?
- Creative and artistic people tend to be driven by something. What is it that drives you to create?
- Share a picture of a tool of your trade. Is there anything special about it?
- Today is World Environment Day! How tied to the environment is your creative work? Are there themes of environmentalism in your work?
- Do you tend to practice one or more art forms? If only one, is there anything you want to learn? If many, is there one you want to focus more on?
- Share a single word that describes, represents, or thematically links to the project you’re thinking about today.
- Today is World Oceans Day. The ocean is sometimes described as more unknown than the moon or Mars. Does the unknown excite or scare you when you are creating?
- Share a mistake you made on a current or past project. What did you learn?
- If money were no object and you could have your dream creative space, what would it be?
- Shameless self-promotion day. You deserve to be seen! Share something you want more eyes on!
- Shameless appreciating others day. Share a post from this (or another) hashtag game that made you think, and say thanks to the person who posted.
- Think back to around this time one year ago. Are you more or less happy with your creative output than you were back then? Why?
- If you could take a month off to work on any project, a current WIP or otherwise, what would it be and what would you do with that month?
- Halfway through the month! Let’s take stock. Share some creative wins and losses from June thus far.
- Is there anyone you’ve been meaning to create something with this month, but haven’t? Who and what? Answer the question, then reach out to them and say hi.
- It’s a running joke online how often men think about the Roman Empire. What is your “Roman Empire?” What interest occupies your thoughts more often than other people would expect?
- It’s Autistic Pride Day! Does your relationship with neurodivergence, your own or others’, influence your work?
- It’s almost the official start of summer. Does your relationship with creativity change when the weather does? How?
- In addition to Father’s Day, tomorrow in Canada is National Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Share an indigenous artist’s work that has inspired you, from Canada or elsewhere in the world.
- Happy Father’s Day to the dads out there! Share a memory of something you made with your dad or another caregiver.
- They say “never meet your heroes.” Is there a creative influence on you whose legacy has soured, or at least become complicated? What has that complication done for you?
- What is fascinating you right now?
- Is there a gap in your creative work? A missing tool, a thematic oversight, a technique you haven’t learned? Is it a gap you want to or are planning to close?
- Is there an artist, contemporary or historical, who you would like to collaborate with or learn from? Who, and why?
- What’s something you learned this month?
- In Canada, today is Canadian Multiculturalism Day! Are there strong influences in your work from cultures that are not your own? What is the cultural mosaic that informs your work?
- How did this month go for you? Anything creatively you want to change going into July?
- Did you make anything *with* someone this month? Who, and what?
- You’re awesome. Share something from this month, creative or otherwise, that you’re proud of.
