History That Never Was

Home of Dawn Vogel: Writer, Historian, Geek

Revitalizing a Story from the Discard Folder

| February 5, 2024

Sometimes, I go digging in my old story discard folder and strike gold! Over the years I’ve been writing, I’ve sometimes set fragmentary stories aside. In many cases, I know what I want to do with the stories, but I just haven’t had time to finish them. For others, I’m still struggling with what I want […]

Writing Spring Cleaning

| 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,” […]