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 […]
dawn.vogel | April 2, 2021
There are loads of websites that post writing prompts, but I definitely prefer the ones that are geared toward fiction. Fiction Friday is from a few years ago, but there are 39 posts tagged for that topic on the Author Bank website. You could sift through the list to see what grabs your attention, roll […]
dawn.vogel | March 26, 2021
It’s nearly April, and at least in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s springtime (for whatever that means for a given latitude)! The words for this month are a mix of springtime words and other, random words, but hopefully the multiple meanings of some of these words will provide an interesting combination! I’ve also added a photograph […]
dawn.vogel | March 19, 2021
I was recently looking for some new writing prompts, and I stumbled across Long and Short Reviews’ Friday Five Prompts. This lists out five word prompts for every Friday in 2021. And while we’re already part of the way through the year, there are still plenty more weeks to enjoy! I love playing with word […]
dawn.vogel | March 12, 2021
It’s time for more image prompts, and this week, I started with a theme of “poison room”. But I’d say that the results diverged a bit from that. The first image is a small, capped, brown medicine bottle marked with a skull and crossbones, on a pale orange patterned surface and in front of a […]
dawn.vogel | March 5, 2021
Sometimes, it’s not about finding a source for specific ideas, but much more about finding things that will give you a wealth of different ideas. Two blog posts I’ve found that address this topic well include Brandon Andersen’s 7 Sources for Story Ideas and M.B. Keen’s 9 Ultimate Sources for Writing Ideas. Though there is […]
