dawn.vogel | April 8, 2025
My first novel, Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering came out almost exactly eight years ago. Even though that’s quite some time ago, and I’ve accomplished a lot more writing goals since, I’m still proud of this novel! Though I don’t write as much steampunk any more, I enjoyed the worldbuilding and character development for […]
dawn.vogel | April 7, 2025
When most authors talk about the need for “conflict” to drive a story, they’re talking about external character conflicts. Most often, this is distilled down even further to a protagonist vs. an antagonist. And while that’s certainly one way to generate conflict to drive a story, it’s not the only option! External character conflicts can […]
dawn.vogel | April 4, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! This month, I’ve got the daily historical events from The History Place, which include the normal mix of several events and birthdays for each day of the month. In addition, Rest Less has a list of 28 events that took place […]
dawn.vogel | April 3, 2025
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 44* Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 17 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 19 New Submissions: 11 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 March was, predictably, a little slow on the submissions front, though I did get a bunch of pieces I […]
dawn.vogel | April 2, 2025
Reading: Primarily books to review, along with the appendices in Wonderbook. I’ve also just gotten my copy of C. D. Covington‘s Filling Your Worlds with Words, about linguistic worldbuilding, which I’m looking forward to tackling! Watching: We watched Skeleton Crew somewhere along the line, and I forgot to mention it here. Definitely recommended if you love the […]
dawn.vogel | April 1, 2025
I had a TON of new pieces out in March 2025, including poetry, drabbles, flash fiction, and short stories! My flash fiction story, “Propagating Rosa glacies,” appeared in issue 12 of ALOCASIA. This is a flash fiction piece written as a gardening article (with a teaser for a future article at the end). It’s a bit dark […]
