dawn.vogel | January 31, 2025
It’s time for the February 2025 writing prompts! This month, I decided to use random words from Random Word Generator. Column 1 is nouns, column 2 is verbs, and column 3 is adjectives. I like to think of organizing the columns in this way to suggest a sort of basic sentence as the prompt, wherein […]
dawn.vogel | January 30, 2025
If you’ve given yourself a New Years’ resolution to write a novel, my non-fiction, tongue-in-cheek, book of novel writing advice, An (Un)helpful Guide to Writing a Novel, might be helpful! Most books about writing a novel give you advice about plot and structure and stakes and more. This isn’t most books. Within the pages of An […]
dawn.vogel | January 29, 2025
A couple of weeks ago, I read my short story, “Best of Both Worlds,” which originally appeared in Dangerous Waters, for Story Hour. This was my third appearance at Story Hour, which started in 2020 to give authors a venue to read online when we couldn’t read in person. But they’ve kept going even after […]
dawn.vogel | January 28, 2025
My collection of fantasy short stories, Denizens of Distant Realms, might not seem like an obvious Valentine’s Day read, but it’s got a few stories within its pages that have a bit of romance and love within! “Stormbringer” involves a young man asking for his beloved’s hand in marriage, but before she can accept, there’s a […]
dawn.vogel | January 27, 2025
Today, I’m chatting with Nathan Toronto, military sci-fi aficionado with an interest in alternate history and publisher of Bullet Points! DV: Tell us a little about yourself and your writing. NT: I am a military science fiction addict. It can be a means for creating a more peaceful, prosperous world. In my professional life I […]
dawn.vogel | January 24, 2025
With a lot of folks in the United States (and Northern Hemisphere in general) dealing with winter temperatures and weather, it seemed like a good time to share some winter writing prompts from Reedsy!
dawn.vogel | January 23, 2025
The Hierophant tarot card represents righteousness, sacredness, and hierarchical order. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a poem. The haiku, which begins with the line “it’s traditional,” is a bit of a protest against the hierarchical order and righteousness of this particular card, rendered in very few […]
dawn.vogel | January 22, 2025
Vanessa Ricci-Thode’s The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts (2024) is a young adult novel set within her Fireborn universe, filled with dragons and magic. It’s a charming and sweet look at sisters, found family, grief and loss, and necromancy! Lusi and Marsi lost their mother when Lusi was born, and though their father remarried, he has […]
dawn.vogel | January 21, 2025
Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “The Storyteller” is […]
dawn.vogel | January 20, 2025
As I mentioned on Friday, my current craft book is Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer. Within the first chapter, he talks about the concept of a Scar or Splinter that creates an irritation, “some kind of galvanizing and enduring impulse,” that then combines with a need to communicate and tell stories. In the margin of the book, […]
