dawn.vogel | June 16, 2025
Recently, I’ve been helping the fine folks at The Dream Foundry prepare, post, and promote some of the panel videos from the 2023 Flights of Foundry online convention. New content goes up every Sunday and Wednesday, and many of the videos are up permanently. (Some remain up for an limited amount of time.) Here’s a […]
dawn.vogel | June 13, 2025
Useless Etymology recently posted about the origin of “magpie,” as in the bird, and it’s a wild ride! First off, you’ve got “pie” as a name for a bird, which is derived from the Latin “pica.” Hang on, though. “Pica” is also a condition in which humans eat non-food items, normally because of a vitamin […]
dawn.vogel | June 12, 2025
I’ve recently moved my newsletter to MailerLite, which seems like a great service for hosting it! If you were already subscribed, I transferred your subscription over, so you don’t need to do anything. If you’ve haven’t already subscribed, you can get in on the sleek new design and the monthly updates on what I’m writing, […]
dawn.vogel | June 11, 2025
K-pop has some incredibly surreal and evocative music videos. I’ve written a couple of stories that were inspired by one or more videos, and there are some videos that have a better storyline than some movies! “Hands Up” is a recent track by a new girl group, Meovv (yes, with two Vs instead of a […]
dawn.vogel | June 10, 2025
The Hermit tarot card represents solitude, introspection, and the seeking of internal wisdom. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a short story. The haiku, with the first line “a witch’s cottage,” deals primarily with the solitude part of the Hermit’s meaning. The short story, “Architect of the […]
dawn.vogel | June 9, 2025
If you’re looking for a bunch of great writer advice, check out the Reach Your Apex blog! They’ve got guest posts from fantastic authors, some of which are in video format, on a variety of writerly topics! Reach Your Apex also offers workshops, and you can subscribe to their newsletter to get information about blog […]
dawn.vogel | June 6, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! We’re starting this month’s weird history with The History Place, for historical events for every day of the month. Not all of them are strange, but there are certain to be gems hidden amongst the events! The History Channel has […]
dawn.vogel | June 5, 2025
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 60 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 30 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 32 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 61 My May numbers are a tiny bit up from April, which is exciting! It’s also kind of surprising, because […]
dawn.vogel | June 4, 2025
Reading: Books for reviews, at the moment. I’ve got a few other things I’d like to crack open, but I’m sort of barely keeping up with other reading right now. Watching: Our latest “must watch” is Murderbot, of course, which we’re really loving! It’s a bit different from the books (I’ve only heard the first book, […]
dawn.vogel | June 3, 2025
I had one new piece out in May, which was a drabble for the Reach Your Apex community drabbles! My story was “Tower Twister,” which is a drabble about towers around the world being relocated. It’s an incredibly quick read, and there are several other drabbles on the theme of “extraction” alongside of mine!
