dawn.vogel | March 7, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! This month, I’ve got the daily historical events from The History Place, which include the normal mix of several events and birthdays for each day of the month. I’ve also got History UK’s March historical events, with one event on […]
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dawn.vogel | February 28, 2025
It’s almost March, which means it’s time for the March 2025 writing prompts! This month, I went with three themed art challenges for the prompts. Column 1 is the Mutation March prompts from Teresa Galusaurus, in which you’re encouraged to draw animals, but make them weird. Column 2 is the 2020 Magical March prompts from […]
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dawn.vogel | February 14, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! February is called “The Strangest Month of the Year” in this article on Medium from 2018. While it doesn’t delve too deeply into historical events, one might argue that the events it covers from seven years ago are recent history, […]
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dawn.vogel | February 7, 2025
It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! A couple of these might sound a bit like winter holiday-oriented prompts, but you can also adjust them slightly to set them outside of the winter holidays! Write a piece about someone with a discerning eye about ornaments. Write a piece about the […]
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dawn.vogel | January 31, 2025
It’s time for the February 2025 writing prompts! This month, I decided to use random words from Random Word Generator. Column 1 is nouns, column 2 is verbs, and column 3 is adjectives. I like to think of organizing the columns in this way to suggest a sort of basic sentence as the prompt, wherein […]
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dawn.vogel | January 24, 2025
With a lot of folks in the United States (and Northern Hemisphere in general) dealing with winter temperatures and weather, it seemed like a good time to share some winter writing prompts from Reedsy!
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dawn.vogel | January 3, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! Historic UK has a great list of historical events, including that one that changed the beginning of the year from my birthday to January 1st! Just think, we could have been celebrating my birthday right at the beginning of the […]
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dawn.vogel | December 30, 2024
Over the past several months, I’ve been working my way through Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life by Sharon Fagan McDermott and M. C. Benner Dixon. While it’s very different from the last craft book that I worked through, it includes writing exercises alongside the twelve chapters, making it a great read for authors who […]
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dawn.vogel | December 27, 2024
It’s time for the first writing prompts for 2025! This month, I took the prompts from three different art challenges. The first column is the Kick in the Creatives January art prompt list, with some of the prompts shortened slightly and Americanized. The second column is from Blenduary 2025, which is normally an art challenge using […]
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dawn.vogel | December 13, 2024
It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! Write a piece about what happens when you imbibe a potion. Write a piece about how much inspiration a character can afford. Write a piece about the impacts of a cubic zirconia. Follow the DefCon One Instagram account for writing prompts every other Friday, or […]
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