dawn.vogel | July 21, 2023
If you’re looking for a different sort of writing prompt, check out this list of random facts from Cosmo UK. Some of them may be things you already know, while others may be new to you! (I did not know that the Eiffel Tower is not always the same height–not something the French nuns taught […]
dawn.vogel | July 14, 2023
If you’d like a prompt that could lead to some seriously ridiculous stories, think about using some of your spam emails (or snail mail) as a source of inspiration. Here’s just a few ideas you might take from your spam! Imagine the spam email being received by someone who is not a modern human. Have […]
dawn.vogel | July 7, 2023
If you’re looking for some ideas to write a utopian story, check out these prompts! There are some based on text and others based on images, and they’re a fun mix of potential ideas!
dawn.vogel | June 30, 2023
July begins tomorrow, which means today is the perfect day to post my July 2023 prompts! This month’s prompts are mostly randomly generated, but the first column comes from the Kick in the Creatives July art challenge (with minor modifications). This month’s art challenge there is also to draw upside down, so you might think […]
dawn.vogel | June 16, 2023
If you’re looking for unusual writing prompts to take your writing a different direction, check out this list of twenty prompts! There are a lot of fun and unique prompts on the list, especially when you apply a speculative fiction lens to them!
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 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 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 […]
