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!
dawn.vogel | March 31, 2023
It’s almost April, so time for the April writing prompts! This month, I did all random prompts. The first column is nouns, and the second column is verbs, except because English is how it is, some of those words can be either nouns or verbs. The third column is much more random, pulled from lists […]
dawn.vogel | March 24, 2023
My birthday is tomorrow, so I decided to celebrate with some birthday themed images for this week’s Fun for Friday! The first image depicts a round cake with rows of pink roses along the edges and three curly pink lit candles atop it. In the background is a metallic vase holding a bouquet of pink, […]
dawn.vogel | March 17, 2023
We’ve recently started an Instagram account for DefCon One Publishing, and one of the features on that Instagram is writing prompts every couple of weeks. You can catch them on Fridays on Instagram, or every so often, I’ll round up several of them and post them here! The three prompts this week are: Write a piece about a […]
dawn.vogel | March 10, 2023
I’ve already got a story in mind, looking at these three images, but I wonder what others might make of the same prompt! The first image is of a female-presenting person from Vietnam, dressed in white clothing and carrying a conical hat woven from straw with many large gaps between the straw. Her right hand […]
