dawn.vogel | March 31, 2025
During the gaming convention I was at recently, I played in a couple of games that involved a lot of collaborative storytelling. It was fun for me to get to stretch some of my writing muscles in a setting where I wasn’t writing down the results, but rather working with other people to shape the […]
dawn.vogel | March 28, 2025
April is just around the corner, so it’s time for the April 2025 writing prompts! This month, I ran across a lot of weirdly similar lists from different sources, so I had to approach things a little differently. The first column is The Petite Planner’s April Doodle Challenge from 2024. The second column is primarily […]
dawn.vogel | March 27, 2025
When I initially published Unfixed Timelines, I had a vague idea that I would do more of these collections. Still, I didn’t add a “1” onto the title, as that seemed a little odd to me. The second and third volumes, of course, have numbers, which now makes the first volume stand out a little bit […]
dawn.vogel | March 26, 2025
Cursed Shards: Tales of Dark Folklore, edited by Leanbh Pearson (IFWG Publishing International, 2024), is an anthology with ten stories that each contain a shard of a broken mirror at the core of their premise. Some stories touch on well-known folklore, while others use more obscure myths and legends as their core. The stories are […]
dawn.vogel | March 25, 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! “Just a Dollar” and […]
dawn.vogel | March 24, 2025
I’m out having adventures, so no blog post today! Back at it tomorrow!
dawn.vogel | March 21, 2025
It’s been a while since I’ve done a three image writing prompt, but I’ve got some that I am fairly confident did not use AI tools, so let’s go! The first image is a black and white photo depicting a futuristic structure with a semi-transparent cone at the top of the structure, and a wider […]
dawn.vogel | March 20, 2025
The Chariot tarot card represents overcoming challenges and forward movement. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a flash fiction piece and a poem. “Refuge” is a flash fiction story about a person fleeing pursuers who finds an unusual location. The story takes place on a river, with the protagonist quite […]
dawn.vogel | March 19, 2025
Jeremy has been a cyberpunk fan for years, so of course he picked up Cyberpunk 2077 when it came out. I was excited, because Keanu Reeves voices one of the characters in the game. I was not prepared to hate a character voiced by Keanu Reeves. But man, Johnny Silverhand is a DICK! He’s grumpy […]
dawn.vogel | March 18, 2025
I’ve published a handful of horror and dark fantasy pieces in the nine months since my last post on my spooky reads! Weathering Youth contains stories featuring younger protagonists, but that doesn’t mean the stories are all light and fluffy. In particular, “Remembrance” (drabble), “A Trail of Apples” (short story), “No Fear” (flash fiction), “Someone […]
