August 2023 Daily Writing Exercises

Closing out the summer of 2023 with yet some more daily writing.

August 1 — Goblinbeard & His Crew

(in both the nautical and colloquial sense)
A lighthouse, seen from the beach.
Photo by Gilberto Olimpio on Pexels.com

August 2 — The Goddesses of Realmgard and the People They Look Like

"Pallas Athena" by Rembrandt.
Pallas Athena: Rembrandt.
Image via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.

August 3 — “Mighty Lizard“

Though it really is more of a scary turkey…
A dinosaur fossil.
Photo by Marcus Lange on Pexels.com

August 4 — She’s from Carog

Coins and a coin purse.
Photo by Hugo Martu00ednez on Pexels.com

August 5 — “I am here either to inflict unspeakable violence. Or I am indeed here to help my friend get her ball back from over your fence.”

Wooden fence posts.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

August 6 — Pela Strahlend, Statistically Least Likely to be Struck by Lightning

Lightning over a lake.
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Pexels.com

August 7 — 100% All-Natural Mammoth Wool

Treated in the Tears of 100 Maidens Weeping Over the Latest Volume of Happenings at Bridgewaltonshire Priory
A woman holding sweaters.
Photo by Arina Krasnikova on Pexels.com

August 8 — Mr. Johnson, or Johnstone

The interior of a pub.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

August 9 — Egeria Goes Courting

Heart stickers on a white background.
Photo by Ylanite Koppens on Pexels.com

August 10 — The Hunting of the Grand Tarquinian Moth


August 11 — Is a Sausage on a Bun a Sandwich?

(No. No, it isn’t)
Sausages.
Photo by Edwin Jaulani on Pexels.com

August 12 — ‘Well, Gran Hidalgo Gained the Day’

Torn pages of sheet music.
Photo by Ylanite Koppens on Pexels.com

August 13 — ‘What is a tree covered in?’

A close-up of a tree trunk.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

August 14: The Cassandros Mosaic

August 15 —

“You need more Dragons, bigger Dragons, and whenever there’s no Dragons, your characters should be asking Where’s the Dragons?“

A 1800s illustration of a Dragon.
The Mythical Creature Dragon: Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch. Public Domain.

August 16 — Truly, a
cunning stratagem

A forest river.
Photo by Baskin Creative Studios on Pexels.com

August 17 — Kat vs. Enormous Steak

Steaks on a grill.
Photo by Gonzalo Guzman on Pexels.com

August 18 — Little plastic
fighting dudes

A collection of polyhedral dice.
Photo by Zsu00f3fia Fehu00e9r on Pexels.com

August 19 — 5:3 odds of a Magic calamity

A glass pyramid.
Photo by Miriam Espacio on Pexels.com

August 20 — Date night in Porthaven

A hand holding a bouquet of flowers.
Photo by Dominika Roseclay on Pexels.com

August 21 — Arrow-prone


August 22 — “Merse hairys”

A row of jars on a self.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

August 23 —
Ancient temple filled with traps that somehow still work.

Olmec statue heads.
Photo by Roberto Carlos Romu00e1n Don on Pexels.com

August 24 — Be nice to potatoes, or Egeria will know.

Potatoes.
Photo by Polina Tankilevitch on Pexels.com

August 25 — Fireflies

Fireflies light up the forest at night.
Fireflies light up the forest at night Image by tdub303, via istockphoto.com.

August 26 — Numbing potion

A hand reaching up in front of a field of flowers.
Photo by Tan Danh on Pexels.com

August 27 — Quoque levas, fra?

An illustrated reconstruction of the Baths of Caracalla.
A German illustrated reconstruction of the Baths of Caracalla, c. 1891.
Image via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.

August 28 — Sally Lyte’s biting phase

Megalodon jaws at the American Museum of Natural History.
Image by Spotty11222. via Wikimedia Commons.
Released into Public Domain by the original author.

August 29 — “She turned into Bats!“

A mansion at night.
Photo by Jack Gittoes on Pexels.com

August 30 — Kat brings the bacon – at ramming speed

A large pig, either a boar or a warthog.
Photo by Magda Ehlers on Pexels.com

August 31 — Prima & Vera, loveable urchin scoundrels

A hand holding a glass of water.
Photo by Lisa Fotios on Pexels.com

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