dawn.vogel | December 30, 2022
The new year is just around the corner, so it’s time for the January 2023 writing prompts! The word lists this month are borrowed from other sources. Word 1 is from Kick in the Creatives, which is one of my favorite sources for great prompts, for January 2023. Word 2 is from Natural Beach Living‘s […]
dawn.vogel | December 29, 2022
“The Wearisome Worry of the Wily Waif” is the sole Marsh sisters story I’ve written that has not been picked up for publication. But I included it in C. and M. Marsh, Girl Detectives because I think it’s a good story. It’s a little different than the other Marsh sisters stories, which have the girls confronting […]
dawn.vogel | December 28, 2022
I initially heard The Red Scholar’s Wake (JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2022) pitched by the author, Aliette de Bodard, as “lesbian space pirates” (which is from a blurb quoted on the front cover of the book). I immediately bought a copy, a month before the book came out, based on those three words. It was exactly […]
dawn.vogel | December 27, 2022
Not all of my heroic stories involve superheroes, though some of them do. Here’s a sampling of some recent releases involving heroic characters. If you like audio stories, check out “Friday Jones’ Helpful Advice for Preventing Your Super-Genius Roommate from Becoming a Supervillain,” which was podcast at Manawaker Flash Fiction Podcast this past March. You […]
dawn.vogel | December 26, 2022
I recently got a big stack of writing craft and books through a Microcosm Publishing Kickstarter, so I’ve decided to work through several of them for reviewing on my blog. Unf#ck Your Writing is a guide to how authors can produce their best works, but it’s not about the nitty gritty of grammar and prose […]
dawn.vogel | December 23, 2022
Today’s Fun for Friday has three wintery images to work with! The first image depicts an enormous sculpture that could be carved from ice or might just be iced over, against a clear medium blue sky, with a large full moon to its left. In the foreground, a procession of more than a dozen human […]
dawn.vogel | December 22, 2022
Sometimes, my stories come from a character voice that gets stuck in my head and won’t leave me alone until I tell their story. This is how “Goblin Economics” came about. Grom, the narrator of the story, popped into my head without much of a story, other than that he was a very clever goblin. […]
dawn.vogel | December 21, 2022
As probably no surprise to anyone who knows me, I loved the new Wednesday series on Netflix. Jenna Ortega is perfect as the lead character, and I enjoyed most of the supporting characters as well. (Especially Enid. Enid and Wednesday’s shared room is basically the warring halves of my soul–cute and colorful vs. dark and macabre.) […]
dawn.vogel | December 20, 2022
If you’re looking for something to read over the holidays, here are a few suggestions from my stories and books! Cross and Circle takes place in December and January, with Christmas and other holidays in the background of the story, but still a part of it. It’s also got academia, strange cults, and LGBTQ+ characters! […]
dawn.vogel | December 19, 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 3, Section 2, on stanzaic variations. This section begins by introducing the names for various types of stanzas–tercets, quatrains, cinquains, and sixains–each of which can […]
