dawn.vogel | April 22, 2025
“Pivot Hinge” started out as a story about something that was hidden in plain sight, paired with a random quote that is lost to the ages. I originally called the story “Let My Love Open the Door,” and the earliest draft involved a film, which eventually morphed into an album and a music video. The […]
dawn.vogel | April 21, 2025
Recently, I’ve been helping out the fine folks at The Dream Foundry to prepare, post, and promote some of the panel videos from the 2023 Flights of Foundry online convention. New content goes up every Wednesday, and most of the videos are available for six months after they’re posted. (Some remain up for an unlimited […]
dawn.vogel | April 18, 2025
I recently heard someone refer to themself as a “Fellow” in an academic sense, which got me thinking about the origin of that word in that specific context. The origin of “fellow” (in a non-academic sense) is that of a companion or partner in a business sense, going back to Proto-Indo-European and coming to English […]
dawn.vogel | April 17, 2025
Since my last post of recent fantasy stories and poetry, I’ve had a few new fantasy pieces come out! My Weathering Youth collection spans many genres, but the core of it involves fantasy stories, including some that are in the “traditional” (or non-contemporary) fantasy genre, like “Charming, Not Useful,” a somewhat ridiculous flash fiction take on […]
dawn.vogel | April 16, 2025
If you like anthologies featuring stories by marginalized authors, check out Enter Here: An Anthology of Portals, which is currently on Kickstarter! The anthology will feature horror, fantasy, and sci-fi stories about doors opening. Four of the stories have already been selected, but there’s an open call to fill the remaining spots in the anthology! You […]
dawn.vogel | April 15, 2025
My collection, Coast to Coast Stars, came out almost five years ago! It’s got five short stories set in Cobalt City and Cerulean City, with the former on the East Coast and the latter on the West Coast. Four of the stories are set in Cerulean City, but one of them, “Happily Never After,” features a […]
dawn.vogel | April 14, 2025
Last Monday, I talked about external character conflicts, and how those are the sort of “conflict” that many authors are thinking of when they talk about the subject. At the end of that post, I started to dip a little bit into internal character conflicts, which is what I’m talking about today. Most people have […]
dawn.vogel | April 11, 2025
It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! Write a piece about what happens when a fox encounters fuzzy socks. Write a piece about early flowers and late icicles. Write a piece about repairing a lamp with the wrong tool for the job. Follow the DefCon One Instagram account for writing prompts every […]
dawn.vogel | April 10, 2025
If you’d prefer a summary of my monthly writing and history research, along with book reviews, new releases, and more, you should subscribe to my newsletter! It comes out on a Monday near the middle of each month, and if you sign up, you also get a newsletter-exclusive short story, “Poisoned, Shot, Beaten, and Drowned,” […]
dawn.vogel | April 9, 2025
Neon Hemlock is at it again with another novella series for 2025! This year’s Kickstarter will fund the publication of six novellas and a short story collection. There’s one historical fiction novella on tap, alongside several contemporary fantasy titles, which will carry into early 2026. I’ve enjoyed all of the Neon Hemlock novellas and collections […]
