dawn.vogel | June 11, 2021
It’s time for some beautiful images to inspire your writing. (Images deleted.) The first photo is of a pagoda building in a lush green setting, with mist and a narrow waterfall in the background. The second photo is a silhouetted person at twilight (or sunrise) reaching upward for a very slender crescent moon. The third […]
dawn.vogel | June 4, 2021
Sometimes, the best way to come up with a writing prompt is to look for something utterly strange or unbelievable, because truth is stranger than fiction. Electric Literature has collected ideas for stories or novels from weird Wikipedia articles. Even if you don’t find one on this list that speaks to you, simply the idea […]
dawn.vogel | May 28, 2021
June is just around the corner, so it’s time for another month of writing prompts! For this month, the words are drawn from a variety of sources and aren’t necessarily themed toward the month. There are also some fun things tucked in there like “lyrics” and “quote,” which might not mean talking about those things, […]
dawn.vogel | May 21, 2021
Sometimes you see a great image prompt, but it gives you almost too many potential ideas. That’s why something like this page of visual writing prompts with brief suggestions of what’s going on and some questions your story might answer can be helpful. This particular batch is meant for classroom use, but that doesn’t mean […]
dawn.vogel | May 14, 2021
It’s time for some more image prompts for this week’s Fun for Friday! (Images deleted.) The first image is three large clusters of a succulent plant with broad and thick leaves that end in purple points, growing from a pale tan rock formation. The second image is larger than life sculpture of a snail in […]
dawn.vogel | May 7, 2021
If you’ve ever wondered what a sunrise might look like from Mars, or even farther away from the Sun, artist Ron Miller has created depictions of what sunrise looks like on different planets. The images include views from both planets and moons, particularly for planets with no appreciable surface from which the Sun could be […]
dawn.vogel | April 30, 2021
May is Mermay in the art community, and I like to turn a lot of art prompts into writing prompts. So the first column of this month’s prompts are from the Mermay 2021 list. And while these words are geared toward inspiring artists to draw mermaids, you may come up with different ideas for your […]
dawn.vogel | April 23, 2021
This week, we’ve got some slightly surreal images involving roads for writing inspiration. (Images deleted.) The first image is a photograph taken through a pair of glasses. Where the glasses are present, the photo has some color, with blue sky and green grass on either side of a fairly worn roadway. Outside of the glasses, […]
dawn.vogel | April 16, 2021
I’ve got superheroes on my mind lately, as I’ve been working on some Cobalt City stories and proofreading a friend’s Cobalt City-adjacent novella. So for today’s Fun for Friday, check out these superhero writing prompts. They’re in the form of first sentences/paragraphs, so you may want to make some changes to make your story a little […]
dawn.vogel | April 9, 2021
This week’s three images are all taken from an interesting perspective that’s more about what’s in the distance. With each of these questions, you can ask what’s in the distance, what the perspective is moving toward, or whether that perspective is just looking back at what it’s left. The first image is a pair of […]
