dawn.vogel | September 2, 2022
Every once in a while, writing starts to feel like a chore for me. The best solution? Write something that’s JUST for me, or just for fun. This article gives eight ideas to make writing fun again when it’s lost it’s shine. Though it’s not specific prompts, it may give you ideas for ways to […]
dawn.vogel | March 7, 2022
We’re edging toward spring in the northern hemisphere, which makes now seem like a good time for a little writing spring cleaning! Many authors have a folder on their computer where they dump a lot of half-finished projects, snippets of dialogue, and story ideas. You might call it “pieces” (like I do), “junk,” “ideas,” “someday,” […]
dawn.vogel | May 31, 2021
Writers love blank books. We hoard blank books sometimes, like we’re dragons. We like to have a stack of blank books waiting around for just the right project. For some authors, suggesting that they use one of their precious hoard to write notes is anathema. But I’m suggesting just that–picking one of the notebooks from […]
dawn.vogel | January 11, 2021
If you’re like me, you may often have more ideas than you know what to do with, and not enough time to implement them. But equally important to time for implementation is a method of tracking those ideas that works for you. I keep my ideas in a lot of places: I’ve got a tag […]
dawn.vogel | September 10, 2018
How do you figure out whether your idea is a short story, a novel, or maybe neither? Sometimes, it’s really easy to figure out. Some ideas have a scope that you know from the get-go that it’s going to be something as long as a novel, or maybe even a series. But sometimes, you have […]
