dawn.vogel | March 31, 2023
It’s almost April, so time for the April writing prompts! This month, I did all random prompts. The first column is nouns, and the second column is verbs, except because English is how it is, some of those words can be either nouns or verbs. The third column is much more random, pulled from lists […]
dawn.vogel | March 30, 2023
When the editors at Razorgirl Press (the original publishers of my Brass and Glass series) asked me whether Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering was a stand-alone book, I was pretty sure the answer was “no.” But I hadn’t entirely figured out what would happen in the rest of the books. But that question got me […]
dawn.vogel | March 29, 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. A People’s Guide to Publishing by Joe Biel is a fantastic book for anyone serious about creating and sustaining a publishing business. The focus is […]
dawn.vogel | March 28, 2023
Denizens of Distant Realms is a brief collection, with only six short stories. All of these stories have stuck with me over the years, though, and I’ve even recently been writing another story that fits into the same tangentially shared world of these six stories. If these stories were placed in chronological order, I think […]
dawn.vogel | March 27, 2023
I love sharing free resources for authors, like these worksheets by Jami Gold and other authors! There are worksheets for story, plot, characters, and more craft things, as well as worksheets for business aspects of writing. Take a look and see if there’s something there you can use!
dawn.vogel | March 24, 2023
My birthday is tomorrow, so I decided to celebrate with some birthday themed images for this week’s Fun for Friday! The first image depicts a round cake with rows of pink roses along the edges and three curly pink lit candles atop it. In the background is a metallic vase holding a bouquet of pink, […]
dawn.vogel | March 23, 2023
Have you checked out The Sidewalk Diverges yet? It’s chock full of contemporary fantasy short stories, shorter fiction pieces, and poetry. The vast majority of the pieces are upbeat and slightly humorous, though there are always a few dark corners here and there. In The Sidewalk Diverges, stories about magic sit alongside stories about superpowers, while ghosts, […]
dawn.vogel | March 22, 2023
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories is the latest collection from author Tobias S. Buckell (Apex Book Company, 2023), and it’s filled with a wonderful collection of previously published sci-fi stories. Several of the stories in this collection share the same setting, one in which oxygen use is monitored and paid […]
dawn.vogel | March 21, 2023
“If the Light is Constant” is a creepy little piece of microfiction that delves into perception and reality. Because it’s so brief, it leaves a bit to the imagination, which I find is often very effective for horror and other dark stories. The monsters you can’t quite see are far more terrifying than the ones […]
dawn.vogel | March 20, 2023
When I started writing, we had a weekly in-person writing group. It wasn’t super structured, and it wasn’t strict on what you could work on, but the goal was to share companionship and writing. It eventually evolved to be one evening and one weekend morning. And then, the Fire Nation* attacked. (Read: the pandemic.) While […]
