dawn.vogel | November 29, 2024
We’re coming to the end of the year, so it’s time for the December 2024 writing prompts! Column 1 this month is from Doodlewash‘s December 2024 prompts. For this one, I occasionally took out an adjective related to Christmas or winter. Column 2 is from Kick in the Creative‘s December 2024 prompts. For these, I […]
dawn.vogel | November 28, 2024
My collection of dystopian science-fiction, Dead-Starred Futures, includes seventeen poems, which range across time and space. There are a couple of poems that look at the climate change crisis on Earth, including “Elemental Crisis” and “Temperance Lost”. There are many more poems that look at science-fictional future wars (like “Last Stand” and “Under Siege”) or colonization […]
dawn.vogel | November 27, 2024
My friend Darren just sent me a tarot deck he really loves, and I now also love it. It’s the Fyodor Pavlov Tarot, which approaches the cards with a queer and gender fluid outlook. The end result is stunning artwork (definitely not safe for work) that offers a fresh approach to card interpretations and meanings, […]
dawn.vogel | November 26, 2024
The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby was one of the first things I self-published, back in 2016. At that point, I’d been writing for publication for more than seven years. And since 2016 was eight years ago (!), that means I’ve been writing for fifteen years, which is a wild thing to think about. But […]
dawn.vogel | November 25, 2024
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “Tell Me a Story: Exploring Narrative Styles” was a great panel on writing stories in ways that are […]
dawn.vogel | November 22, 2024
Although these writing prompts from the University of Iowa’s Iowa Reading Research Center are labeled as being for grades 9 through 12 (or American high schoolers), they’ve got some excellent advice and ideas that could be used by older writers as well! The document is set up to be used by a teacher, and includes […]
dawn.vogel | November 21, 2024
Cross and Circle was one of the first long-form pieces I wrote and published. I originally thought it would be a short story, but the word count kept creeping up, and I realized it was actually going to be closer to a novella length (it’s a little shorter than the official SFWA novella lower limit, […]
dawn.vogel | November 20, 2024
Jamie Lackey’s Toil and Trouble (2024) is a delightful retelling of Pride and Prejudice that integrates witchcraft and LGBTQ+ characters seamlessly into the Regency setting, offering a fresh take on the Austen classic. The book opens with Mrs. Bennet making a deal with a witch–in exchange for her daughters Lizzie and Mary, her fifth child will be […]
dawn.vogel | November 19, 2024
If you love steampunk, I’ve got plenty of book options! First, my Brass and Glass trilogy is a completed series of action and adventure steampunk, involving airship pirates and whiskey. The first book, The Cask of Cranglimmering, introduces you to the crew and world, and the other two books take the story to its conclusion. If you’re […]
dawn.vogel | November 18, 2024
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “How to Create Superheroes and Villains to Match” was high on my list of interests, since I write […]
