dawn.vogel | June 13, 2022
Recently, the NSFWords Thursday evening Twitter chat was about deadlines, and I gave a suggestion that I thought was worth expanding. The question was looking for advice for authors who struggle with deadlines, and I said “I wasn’t really good at setting and hitting deadlines until I had a good sense of how long it […]
dawn.vogel | June 6, 2022
As I mentioned previously, I’m working through Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled very slowly to absorb as much wisdom as I can about writing poetry. This week’s post covers Chapter 1, Section 4, on meters with three and four feet. Previous sections have focused on the many variants on two-footed meter, while this section is […]
dawn.vogel | May 30, 2022
At the Nebulas award weekend, I attended a TON of panels, but I spoke on one panel about Writing in a Shared World, with M. Darusha Wehm, Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, and Noah K. Sturtevant. We each had a variety of levels of involvement in shared world projects, from publishers and organizers of all the pieces to […]
dawn.vogel | May 23, 2022
As a writer with a lot of stories and poems, I do a lot of submitting my stories to markets. Of course, the flipside of that is that I receive a lot of rejections on my stories. Many markets take fewer than 1 percent of the stories submitted to them. This means that even if […]
dawn.vogel | May 16, 2022
I moderated a panel on “Writing Small” at Flights of Foundry, during which we talked a lot about flash fiction and other stories told in very small word counts. I was on a similar panel four years ago, since which time I’ve written and sold a lot more flash fiction and gotten a better grasp […]
dawn.vogel | May 9, 2022
As I mentioned previously, I’m working through Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled very slowly to absorb as much wisdom as I can about writing poetry. This week’s post covers Chapter 1, Section 3, on other meters. After sections on iambic pentameter and variations, this section introduces lines with fewer than or more than five “feet.” […]
dawn.vogel | May 2, 2022
At the recent Flights of Foundry online convention, one of the panels I spoke on was about assembling anthologies. I’ve talked about this topic previously, though only in a very cursory way. This panel brought together people like me, who have edited Kickstarted anthologies with folks who have edited comics anthologies and anthologies showcasing underrepresented […]
dawn.vogel | April 25, 2022
It’s been almost two years since I’ve worked in the physical office for more than one day a week. But as the company I work for moves toward a hybrid work plan, in which I’ll be working from the office two days a week, I’m finding I have to re-learn what it’s like to write […]
dawn.vogel | April 18, 2022
On April 7th, I moderated a QuaranCon panel on Underrepresented Mythologies, and it’s available to watch on YouTube (linked above). This was a fantastic panel with five wonderful panelists who had great answers to my questions! We had people who have worked with a variety of Eastern European mythologies, Middle Eastern mythology, and a lot […]
dawn.vogel | April 11, 2022
As I mentioned previously, I’m working through Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled very slowly to absorb as much wisdom as I can about writing poetry. This week’s post covers Chapter 1, Section 2, on end-stopping, enjambment, caesura, weak endings, and trochaic and pyrrhic substitutions. This section of the chapter follows on learning the rules […]
