dawn.vogel | January 17, 2023
My next collection will be out February 14, so it’s time to show off the cover! It’s a simple one, based on some manipulation of one of my photos, but I think it works for this collection! In The Sidewalk Diverges, stories about magic sit alongside stories about superpowers, while ghosts, angels, and fae intermingle. These […]
dawn.vogel | January 16, 2023
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 3, on the ballad. The ballad is one of those formats that you may not be able to name, but once you hear a […]
dawn.vogel | January 13, 2023
Today’s Fun for Friday photo prompts are a couple of futuristic looking images, along with one of a cat? I like having one discordant image with two potentially connected images for the interesting ideas it might spin off. What’s this cat doing here? Is it an actually Earth housecat? Or is it something else? The […]
dawn.vogel | January 12, 2023
I’ve recently published my third book for younger readers to read, so it’s time to update this list! The Spiders of the Shifting Swamp is my children’s picture book that I also illustrated! It’s a fantasy story in which spiders run a shop and interact with other swamp creatures. The reading level is about right […]
dawn.vogel | January 11, 2023
I recently got a big stack of writing craft and creativity books through a Microcosm Publishing Kickstarter, so I’ve decided to work through several of them for reviewing on my blog. Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto is a book that explores the very good possibility that as a creative person, you will not […]
dawn.vogel | January 10, 2023
It’s 2023, and my Patreon is still going strong. I’m not quite to the goal where I’ll make a monthly video of me reading one of my stories or an excerpt from a longer piece, but perhaps this is the year for that! In addition to getting video readings, my Patreon is a great way […]
dawn.vogel | January 9, 2023
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. Jessie L. Kwak’s From Chaos to Creativity is designed to help creatives build a creativity system that works for them. It tackles topics related to scheduling, […]
dawn.vogel | January 6, 2023
Hopefully the worst of the bitter cold and ice has melted for my Northern Hemisphere readers, but we’re still in the midst of winter. So today, have some winter fiction writing prompts! There are some fun ideas here, some of which could be made even more fun by adding some speculative elements. They could also […]
dawn.vogel | January 5, 2023
Publishing sometimes slows down a bit toward the end of the year, but I had a couple of pieces out this past month! “Don’t Count Your Sprite Shards Before They’re Caged” is a sort of steampunk flash fiction piece that was published in Factor Four. I say sort of steampunk, because it involves an airship, […]
dawn.vogel | January 4, 2023
Reading: Continuing with books to review and craft books, depending on if I’m reading in the living room with a cat on my lap (physical books) or as I wind down before bed (ebooks). I’ve become one of those people who reads more than one book at the same time! Watching: Recent watches included the […]
