dawn.vogel | June 14, 2024
As we approach the summer solstice, I’m thinking about the words for summer in different languages and how those came to be! Check out this article on the origins of summer from Dynamic Language!
dawn.vogel | June 13, 2024
If you like to read spookier pieces, here’s some of my recent horror and dark publications! Unfixed Timelines 3 includes several historical fiction pieces with darker themes, including “Charcoals from an Unidentified Chicago Artist” and “Green-Eyed Phantom.” Though neither of these are horror, they definitely delve into the darker side of history and fiction. My […]
dawn.vogel | June 12, 2024
Reading: Mostly books to review! Watching: The first half of Bridgerton season 3 has been our main TV show, parceled out slowly so as to have enough to get to the second half of the season (which drops tomorrow!). I’ve also been watching some of the panels I couldn’t make this past weekend from WriteHive and […]
dawn.vogel | June 11, 2024
“Not Their Real Names” is a semi-humorous flash fiction piece involving a heist from the perspective of the person running the operation as she deals with her hired crew. I made use of a pretty clever trick in this story by nicknaming the characters after pop culture personalities and characters, because by doing so, I […]
dawn.vogel | June 10, 2024
Last week, I talked about writing concisely, which is something I’m pretty good at. This week, I’m talking about the flipside of that, which is also one of my weaknesses as a writer–filling in the details. When I sit down to write, I generally picture the scene I’m writing as I go. In addition to […]
dawn.vogel | June 7, 2024
If you’re looking for a random writing prompt, check out this generator! The prompts it provides would make great opening lines, but they could also just be used to inspire a story! This one is noted as the “Most Dangerous Random Prompt Generator” because you can start writing a story by clicking a button and […]
dawn.vogel | June 6, 2024
I announced this last week as well, but my one May publication was my story, “The Storyteller,” in Bikes, The Universe, and Everything from Microcosm Publishing. This is the eleventh volume of the Bikes in Space series, but the first one I’ve placed a story in. My story involves a post-apocalyptic culture that relies on bicycles […]
dawn.vogel | June 5, 2024
Addison Smith’s Fractured Realities (2024) is another great collection of sci-fi and fantasy fiction in small stories. There’s a mix of drabbles, microfiction, flash fiction, and a few short stories, with a trend toward stories that pack a lot of emotion into few words. The stories in this collection include a number of previously published stories […]
dawn.vogel | June 4, 2024
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 93 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 33 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 22 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 82 May was on the slower side for my writing and submitting, but also on the acceptance and rejection sides. […]
dawn.vogel | June 3, 2024
Some authors write long pieces, and when they get to the end, they realize they could benefit from learning to write more concisely. Other authors (like me) write very sparsely to begin with (and wind up having to flesh some things out during revisions). If you’re more in the former camp than the latter, here […]
