dawn.vogel | September 30, 2024
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “Marginalized Genders in Fiction” was a panel where the panelists talked about the history of trans and non-binary […]
dawn.vogel | September 24, 2024
It’s the time of the year when authors, aspiring and otherwise, think about writing a novel. Or, at least, it has been in the past. However, the usual impetus for this, NaNoWriMo, has exploded in a most spectacular fashion (see this blog post by my friend Raven Oak for details of the FIRST part of […]
dawn.vogel | September 23, 2024
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! Author Brieanna Wilkoff gave a presentation titled “Creating Compelling Characters” that broke down a system for how she […]
dawn.vogel | September 16, 2024
In addition to catching up on WriteHive panels, I’m also working through my list of panels at the 2024 Nebulas Conference that I didn’t get to watch at the time they were broadcast online. (If you have a 2024 Nebulas membership, you can watch the saved videos and more; if you don’t have one, you […]
dawn.vogel | September 9, 2024
Throughout 2023 and most of 2024, I worked through the entirety of Ariel Gore’s The Wayward Writer. I took a few weeks off here and there for vacations, but I basically spent 78 weeks working through one exercise a week. I talked a little bit about hitting the halfway point here. Overall, I found the entire […]
dawn.vogel | September 2, 2024
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! I’ve caught up on a number of genre-specific panels, including Fear Factor: A Horror Genre Master Class. Horror […]
dawn.vogel | August 26, 2024
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! The Afronauts presented How to Write When You Don’t Want To, which was a great place to start […]
dawn.vogel | August 18, 2024
I’ve accumulated a large collection of card-based writing tools, each of which is useful to different parts of my writing process. So I’ve decided to do a series of posts about the various decks I own and how I use them in my writing. It’s been a while since I’ve gotten a new set of […]
dawn.vogel | August 12, 2024
Today I have a guest post from Natania Barron, author of Netherford Hall, which she summarizes as “Pride and Prejudice and Witches,” but which also is a sapphic Regency-era tale! So I asked Natania to talk a little about queer folks (particularly women) during the Regency for her guest post today! ~ Queering the Regency As […]
dawn.vogel | August 5, 2024
If you are prone to making excuses to not write or doubt your skill, check out this article about self-awareness and writing. It has a lot of good advice for dealing with those self-conscious doubts that slip into our minds, and how to be aware of their toxicity, while also giving pointers on how to […]
