dawn.vogel | August 31, 2022
The Kickstarter for The Best of Mythic Volume Two has already reached its funding goal, but I wanted to put in a plug for it as a great way to get a collection of wonderful stories! You can get this volume and its predecessor in ebook or paperback. Bonus: both volumes contain stories by me! The […]
dawn.vogel | August 30, 2022
I’ve talked about the various cultures by which my various stories and poems in Old Legends and New Fables were inspired, but I’ve also included some that aren’t as easily grouped together. I’ve got a few poems inspired by the legends and fables of the Americas, like the “woman in white” said to haunt the roads […]
dawn.vogel | August 29, 2022
As I mentioned previously, I’m working through Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled very slowly to absorb as much wisdom as I can about writing poetry. This week’s post covers Chapter 2, Section 1, on rhyme. Rhyme is something that I’ve always felt more comfortable with, especially compared to meter. And as Stephen Fry explains, that’s true […]
dawn.vogel | August 26, 2022
Here we are, almost to September. Where has the year gone? This month, I’ve borrowed the words from several art challenges. One of them is one for 2022, but the other two are older ones, as I couldn’t find current versions of their lists. The first column is from the 2022 Kick in the Creatives […]
dawn.vogel | August 25, 2022
Six years ago, I wrote an epistolary novel about a haunted summer camp. Up until this point, the only place it has been available is on Channillo. But I always wanted this to be a book that folks could buy and own, so now it is! Camp Haunt is coming back! The book has undergone minor […]
dawn.vogel | August 24, 2022
M. Darusha Wehm’s Hamlet, Prince of Robots (in potentia press, 2023) is an absolutely brilliant retelling of Hamlet that hits every note of Hamlet while updating the story to a science-fantasy future in which life-like robots are the technological battleground between the Danes and the Norwegians. In Wehm’s retelling, Hamlet is Hamlet 2.0, the second generation […]
dawn.vogel | August 23, 2022
“Dead Souls” was a story that I wrote specifically for Cobalt City: Dragonstorm, a small anthology of stories about a dragon invasion of Cobalt City that the founder of the shared universe wanted to put together. But the roots of the story came from an earlier Cobalt City story I’d written, “Double Angel,” which introduced Evan […]
dawn.vogel | August 22, 2022
If you’re interested in writing a science fiction novel, but you need some help, check out the Pro Writing Aid sponsored Science Fiction Writer’s Week. It’s an online summit with some big names in the science fiction world, and it’s completely free to participate in! It runs from August 29th through September 2nd, and I […]
dawn.vogel | August 19, 2022
If you’re looking to fill a blank page, check out this list of writing prompt sites from Story A Day! Some of these are sites I may have linked to previously, but there are also some neat ideas of other places to look for prompts! Some are geared toward younger writers, and some are geared […]
dawn.vogel | August 18, 2022
“The Toad Catcher’s Wife” was another of my Drawlloween pieces, this one with a prompt of toad. And, as expected, the toad starts out with a witch, but there’s a bit of a twist on the curse placed on this particular toad. It took a bit of work to get this story just right, but […]
