February 2026 Questions

Image description: A round layer cake with white frosting and blue trim. Green and yellow flowers adorn the side of the cake. Writing on top says Happy Birthday SAM with a lit candle in the shape of the number one.

☼ 1. What's one creative thing you'd like to get done this month?
☼ 2. Do you have any annual traditions not tied to holidays?
☼ 3. What's a creative project you would want to give someone for their birthday?
☼ 4. Our next featured creator is a comic artist. Tell us about a comic strip or web comic you enjoy.
☼ 5. You now have the same occupation as the main character of your current WIP (or book you are reading/last read) What job are you doing? ¹
☼ 6. Our featured creator makes graphic novels. As a reader, which do you think is more important in a graphic novel, art or words?

☼ 7. Talk To Me Day. Featured Creator @art_of_goulwenr

☼ 8. How do you define a book? Do audio books and graphic novels fit your definition?
☼ 9. Is one really the loneliest number?
☼ 10. What is the most out of character creative thing you enjoy? That thing that never matches the assumptions about you. ²
☼ 11. Aside from the official birthday song and the ubiquitous Beatles song, is there a song about birthdays you like?
☼ 12. Guffaw?
☼ 13. How well do you sing? If you don't consider yourself a good singer, do you sing anyway?
☼ 14. How are things going for you this month, creatively or otherwise?
☼ 15. Today is SAM's first birthday. Let's celebrate with cake. Share a description, photo, art, short fiction, or other creative portrayal of cake. Or just mash a piece into the cake drive of your PC so we can all try a bite.
☼ 16. Do you have a favorite decade of music? Which one(s)?
☼ 17. Share a fun memory from a past SAM prompt.
☼ 18. Our next featured creator has done her own book covers. Have you ever or would you ever do your own cover?
☼ 19. Our featured creator is an avid gamer. Does gaming affect your creativity?
☼ 20. The alpha male is a misconception perpetuated in popular media that our featured creator works against in her wolf books. What's a misconception that bothers you in popular media?

☼ 21. Talk To Me Day. Featured Creator Hannah Steenbock

☼ 22. Create a poll giving a line from a book you wrote (or a favorite if you haven't written one) along with lines from two other books. Ask people to choose which was from yours.
☼ 23. Reveal the answer to yesterday's poll.
☼ 24. What's something you learned about one of our community member's creativity from the hashtag games?
☼ 25. Would you stream your creative process/ the creation of your work? Why or why not?
☼ 26. Do you abandon creative projects? If so, how do you determine when to abandon them?
☼ 27. Splat?
☼ 28. How did your month go?

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