dawn.vogel | August 5, 2022
If you’re looking for a name to give something in a story, or you just want a random place to write about, check out Muddle’s Wilderness Location Generator (and the other ones at the top right of the page). You can narrow down the type of wilderness location (or other type of being/location) if you […]
dawn.vogel | July 29, 2022
It’s nearly August, so it’s time for the monthly writing prompt post! This month, column 1 is random words, while column 2 comes from the Doodlewash August 2021 list, and column 3 comes from Redfox the Kitsune’s Smaugust 2022 list. Both Doodlewash and Smaugust are typically art challenges, but much like I do with MerMay […]
dawn.vogel | July 22, 2022
Today’s image prompts are images from space, some with imagined elements. The first image shows a golden corona of light around a planet or moon, with a dark background with hints of blues and purples. The second image shows a saucer style UFO above a rugged mountain range, and the entire images is in shades […]
dawn.vogel | July 15, 2022
Even if you don’t consider yourself a poet, poetry can be a fun way to get your creative brain working when you don’t have ideas for stories. With these fun exercises, you might get an unusual poem, or you might get an idea out of the poetry you’re playing with that could turn into a […]
dawn.vogel | July 8, 2022
I didn’t have a theme picked out when I started putting these image prompts together, but one seems to have developed anyway. The first image shows a person standing in shallow water with a boat that is comparatively larger than them, but still a smaller boat. In the background, the sun is rising and painting […]
dawn.vogel | July 1, 2022
If you’re looking for a bunch of sci-fi prompts, along with some other genre prompts, check out this page. In addition to the prompts here, there are links to other prompt lists, AND there’s a prompt generator as well! So you’ll find all sorts of ideas (some better than others, of course, when it comes […]
dawn.vogel | June 24, 2022
July will be here before we know it, so it’s time for the July writing prompts. This month, I picked a bunch of onomatopoeic words, a bunch of color words that are also somewhat summer-y, and some very random words. Of course, you can take the color words at face value and write about them […]
dawn.vogel | June 17, 2022
Sometimes, it can be fun to look at prompts that aren’t designed for fiction writing and twist them into fiction prompts. This list is meant to be for creative journaling, but there are plenty here that could also be story seeds for a fiction writer. You may have to turn a few of them on […]
dawn.vogel | June 10, 2022
I’ve got gardening on my mind, so here’s some interesting gardening images for this week’s Fun for Friday! The first image is some brilliant blue anemones with a sepia-toned background. The second images is a heart-shaped gap in a vivid green hedge, with an out of focus scene in the background. The third image is […]
dawn.vogel | June 3, 2022
There are all kinds of writing exercises available online, as well as those available in published books. In this case, one author of a couple of published books of writing exercises, Brian Kiteley, has put some sample exercises on his website. The first set are from his book The 3 A.M. Epiphany, while a second set […]
