dawn.vogel | February 21, 2025
I work alongside archaeologists in the cultural resources management field, which means I see the word “culture” a lot. And I couldn’t help but notice, as I was typing it, that “cult” is the first four letters of that word. So I figured there must be a connection! There is, and it makes a lot […]
dawn.vogel | February 14, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! February is called “The Strangest Month of the Year” in this article on Medium from 2018. While it doesn’t delve too deeply into historical events, one might argue that the events it covers from seven years ago are recent history, […]
dawn.vogel | February 7, 2025
It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! A couple of these might sound a bit like winter holiday-oriented prompts, but you can also adjust them slightly to set them outside of the winter holidays! Write a piece about someone with a discerning eye about ornaments. Write a piece about the […]
dawn.vogel | January 31, 2025
It’s time for the February 2025 writing prompts! This month, I decided to use random words from Random Word Generator. Column 1 is nouns, column 2 is verbs, and column 3 is adjectives. I like to think of organizing the columns in this way to suggest a sort of basic sentence as the prompt, wherein […]
dawn.vogel | January 24, 2025
With a lot of folks in the United States (and Northern Hemisphere in general) dealing with winter temperatures and weather, it seemed like a good time to share some winter writing prompts from Reedsy!
dawn.vogel | January 17, 2025
I’ve just starting tackling Wonderbook as my next craft book read, and though I’ve only gotten through a bit of it, I’m loving it! One of the things included as a companion to the book is WonderbookNow, a website containing additional resources for folks as they go through the book. And within that site is The […]
dawn.vogel | January 10, 2025
Have you ever wondered about the etymology of the words we use for … words about talking? Useless Etymology has, and they wrote a brief post about the etymology of jargon, jabber, and gibberish, which are related to one another. It’s fascinating to me to see the way these words are related and how they […]
dawn.vogel | January 3, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! Historic UK has a great list of historical events, including that one that changed the beginning of the year from my birthday to January 1st! Just think, we could have been celebrating my birthday right at the beginning of the […]
dawn.vogel | December 27, 2024
It’s time for the first writing prompts for 2025! This month, I took the prompts from three different art challenges. The first column is the Kick in the Creatives January art prompt list, with some of the prompts shortened slightly and Americanized. The second column is from Blenduary 2025, which is normally an art challenge using […]
dawn.vogel | December 20, 2024
If you’ve ever wondered about the etymology of the word “winter,” look no further! This article at Dictionary.com explains it all! As a bonus, you can also read about the origin of December, which may be better known among some. But there are also some additional names that the month went by before it reached […]
