dawn.vogel | March 3, 2023
There’s a column in the New York Times called “What’s Going On in This Picture?“, where they strip captions from assorted news images and post them for students to explain and discuss. But it’s also a great random story prompt, as you fictionalize what’s going on, or otherwise use the image to inform a story. The […]
dawn.vogel | February 24, 2023
The March 2023 writing prompts feel like they’re falling a little early, but with February being a short month, now is the time! This month, the first column comes from Kick in the Creatives, which always has great word lists for each month (I sometimes shorten their prompts for my list). Column 2 comes from […]
dawn.vogel | February 17, 2023
If you’re looking for a potentially very quick writing prompt, check out this idea to write a micro story by filling in the blanks with an excuse. It may seem a little silly at first, but if you read through the post, it links to another post that explains this exercise and how it works […]
dawn.vogel | February 10, 2023
This week’s images are vaguely wintery images for your inspiration! The first image depicts four individuals in silhouette walking a narrow, slightly raised path with snow across the landscape on either side of the path. The sky above is cloudy, blocking most of the sunlight, but the sun peeks out near the bottom of the […]
dawn.vogel | February 3, 2023
We’ve recently started an Instagram account for DefCon One Publishing, and one of the features on that Instagram is writing prompts every couple of weeks. You can catch them on Fridays on Instagram, or every so often, I’ll round up several of them and post them here! The three prompts this week are: Write a piece about a […]
dawn.vogel | January 27, 2023
It’s time for the February 2023 writing prompts, and yet again, I’m borrowing my lists from other sources. It’s the combination of the three, I think, that will lead to interesting things. Words in the first column are from the Kick in the Creatives February 2023 art prompts. They’ve got the most variety! Words in […]
dawn.vogel | January 20, 2023
I love random generators, so it’s no wonder that I’m sharing this Random Title Challenge prompt/generator! It uses dice to choose words from three lists, which you put together into a title and then use to inspire a story. The best thing about this challenge is that you can make your own lists of adjectives, […]
dawn.vogel | January 13, 2023
Today’s Fun for Friday photo prompts are a couple of futuristic looking images, along with one of a cat? I like having one discordant image with two potentially connected images for the interesting ideas it might spin off. What’s this cat doing here? Is it an actually Earth housecat? Or is it something else? The […]
dawn.vogel | January 6, 2023
Hopefully the worst of the bitter cold and ice has melted for my Northern Hemisphere readers, but we’re still in the midst of winter. So today, have some winter fiction writing prompts! There are some fun ideas here, some of which could be made even more fun by adding some speculative elements. They could also […]
dawn.vogel | December 30, 2022
The new year is just around the corner, so it’s time for the January 2023 writing prompts! The word lists this month are borrowed from other sources. Word 1 is from Kick in the Creatives, which is one of my favorite sources for great prompts, for January 2023. Word 2 is from Natural Beach Living‘s […]
