dawn.vogel | June 9, 2023
This week’s image prompts come from street photography of various interesting shapes and scenes! The first image is rendered in black and white and features rows of windows, each one lighted, from a lower viewpoint. The second image depicts a concrete railing that appears to be on a staircase on the side of a building. […]
dawn.vogel | June 2, 2023
This week, I’ve got another three writing prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! Write a piece about a loan that is worth more than face value. Write a piece about building on the moon. Write a piece that takes place during a lunch break. Follow the DefCon One Instagram for writing prompts roughly every other […]
dawn.vogel | May 26, 2023
It’s almost a week until June begins, but with the way May ends, this is the time for the June writing prompts! This month, I’ve set the WayBack Machine to several old lists of prompts. Column 1 comes from a 2016 6-word writing challenge. Column 2 comes from 2020 writing prompts. And column 3 comes […]
dawn.vogel | May 19, 2023
Sometimes, even non-fiction writing prompts can be a good source of inspiration if you look at them from a fictional lens. For example, the writing prompts offered here are meant to be more of journaling exercises. But you could also use them to stretch your fiction writing skills by writing them from the perspective of […]
dawn.vogel | May 12, 2023
This week’s images all involve urban places. The first image shows two partial train or elevated rail cars, both in silhouette, with few people in either car. In the background, the cloudy sky is partially lit by the sun, as though the image was taken at sunrise or sunset. The second image is a nighttime […]
dawn.vogel | May 5, 2023
If you like writing sci-fi, the Smithsonian Museum of Air and Space has prepared a writing prompt based on objects in their collection, originally for a Sci-Fi Family Day. If the images of Smithsonian artifacts in that document don’t spark any ideas, you can also search their multimedia gallery to see if something there works […]
dawn.vogel | April 28, 2023
In the not-entirely-accurate words of Justin Timberlake, “It’s gonna be May!” Okay, yeah, that’s a horrible joke but I love it anyway. And it is nearly May, which means it’s time for one of my favorite monthly challenges, MerMay! And MerMay is the source of the first column of words/phrases. There are a couple on […]
dawn.vogel | April 21, 2023
This week, I’ve got another three writing prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! Write a piece about what lies beyond the stars. Write a piece about what goes on in the clouds. Write a piece about nature infiltrating a place where it shouldn’t be. Follow the DefCon One Instagram for writing prompts roughly every […]
dawn.vogel | April 14, 2023
This week’s Fun for Friday is three somewhat random photo prompts. The first photo depicts four people wearing long pants and coats, and holding umbrellas, walking in front of a white wall painted with blue that resembles a waterfall or surf waves. The second photo depicts two elaborate microphones sitting on a flat surface in […]
dawn.vogel | April 7, 2023
If you’re feeling devoid of ideas, check out the suggestions here for some writing prompts that might help you break out of writer’s block. The prompts are generally designed for non-speculative stories, but it’s easy to insert a speculative element into them, if you like!
