History That Never Was

Home of Dawn Vogel: Writer, Historian, Geek

Reading: Nightlight and M for Magic

| May 6, 2011

Having finally had a night to sit and read, I managed to make it through two books! Compared to my usual woefully inadequate book consumption, this is a big accomplishment. It did not, however, make any apparent dent in the stacks of books I still need to read. Nightlight is a Twilight parody, and it […]

Too many ideas, not enough time

| March 3, 2011

I woke up this morning from a dream about vampires, and I realized by the time I got to work (and was still mulling over the details) that this dream could form the basis of a novel/setting. Because what I really needed to do was go and get myself worked up over writing a vampire […]

A new story

| February 25, 2011

While I don’t think I’m going to finish one story by the deadline, I managed to sit down last night and bash out a full rough draft of a different story. I think this may be the first time that I’ve gotten an entire first draft out in one sitting. I was listening to a […]

Reading Notes: HP7

| February 22, 2011

So I’m WAY behind on the whole Harry Potter craze, because I patently refused to read them when they came out, mainly because they were so popular. Yes, I have been known to be rather contrary. 🙂 But now I’m reading Deathly Hallows, and I’m almost to the point where I’ll be able to say […]

Welcome!

| February 21, 2011

Well, here it is. My very own website for my writing! Arguably, I didn’t NEED another website, but I wanted one. And then Jeremy and I came up with the exact same name for it at the exact same time, so I figured it was kind of meant to be. At present, I’m working on […]