dawn.vogel | April 17, 2020
With many of us staying at home a lot more than we used to, people may want to get creative for things to do while they’re at home. This list has 30 fun options! But if you want to get really creative, you could take this list of options and use it as writing prompts. […]
dawn.vogel | April 10, 2020
For this week’s three image (deleted) collection, we’ve got a couple of stars in space, with the background in black and magenta. We’ve got a silhouette of a cat sitting on a tree branch with a blue and purple starry background (and there are some leaves or maybe birds flying away from the branch). And […]
dawn.vogel | April 3, 2020
My attention span tends to be fairly short right now, so the idea of writing flash fiction rather than longer works is definitely appealing to me. Here’s a list of 131 flash fiction prompts if you’re also looking for shorter things to write! The website offers it as a 100 day challenge or a 30 […]
dawn.vogel | March 27, 2020
March has seemed a lot longer than it ought to have, but this is shaping up to be the new normal in our neck of the woods. This month, we’ve got a random assortment of words, plus a bonus handful of words in the image for this post. Feel free to toss them in wherever […]
dawn.vogel | March 20, 2020
If you’re looking for specific genre writing prompts, check out this list! They’ve got several ideas for each of a bunch of different genres. And they’ve even got historical fiction, which is an uncommon genre to find in prompts! This could also be fun if you randomly picked two prompts from different genre categories and […]
dawn.vogel | March 13, 2020
They may not seem it, but these photos are tenuously linked to one another. Even if you don’t know the connection, though, they could lead to an interesting story. The first photo is of a street parade with dragon and lion puppets/costumes. The second is of a beat-up red USB stick on a red glossy […]
dawn.vogel | March 6, 2020
If you’ve ever found yourself wanting to know when during history there were eclipses in a specific location, I’ve got you covered! The HMNAO Eclipse Portal will let you choose a location and see a list of all the eclipses in that location from 1500-2100 AD (or CE). The Solar Eclipse Catalog approaches the topic […]
dawn.vogel | February 28, 2020
We’re already to the end of a long February, so it’s time for the March writing prompts! I’ve got themed and non-themed prompts mixed in this year! Check back on the last Friday of each month (or occasionally the first day of a new month, when that falls on a Friday) for my History That […]
dawn.vogel | February 21, 2020
For this week’s fun, check out this list of “What If” Journal Prompts. But now, apply them to fiction. More specifically, spin out some ideas of what a character might do if one of these What Ifs happened to them, and build a story from there!
dawn.vogel | February 14, 2020
This week, it’s another bunch of somewhat random images (deleted) to inspire your writing. First, we have a car driving through an area with some leafless trees, with high water on either side of a narrow road, and possibly overtaking the road. The second image is three long, narrow spools of thread, in pale green, […]
