dawn.vogel | February 14, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! February is called “The Strangest Month of the Year” in this article on Medium from 2018. While it doesn’t delve too deeply into historical events, one might argue that the events it covers from seven years ago are recent history, […]
dawn.vogel | January 31, 2025
It’s time for the February 2025 writing prompts! This month, I decided to use random words from Random Word Generator. Column 1 is nouns, column 2 is verbs, and column 3 is adjectives. I like to think of organizing the columns in this way to suggest a sort of basic sentence as the prompt, wherein […]
dawn.vogel | March 7, 2024
I had three pieces come out in February, all flash fiction! Small Wonders reprinted my story “Grandmother Firebird,” which is a sweet and cozy multigenerational tale of daughter, mother, and grandmother. My story “The Glass Cauldron Shattered” appeared in 99 Fleeting Fantasies, an anthology of flash fiction pieces. This one takes a look at magical […]
dawn.vogel | March 5, 2024
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 116 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 41 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 4 Resubmissions: 41 New Submissions: 8 Stories out at the end of the month: 115 February has continued January’s trend of being a good time to finish pieces. One of my new submissions this […]
dawn.vogel | January 26, 2024
It’s time for the February 2024 writing prompts! As per the usual, I’ve pulled these in from other sources, though I had to do some digging since this year is a leap year! The first column is from a 2023 Kick in the Creatives February “Faces” prompt list. I added the word for the last […]
dawn.vogel | March 2, 2023
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 71 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 58 (+1) (+5) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 88 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 98 My submissions numbers are back up to closer to normal again, after a long while of struggling with […]
dawn.vogel | January 27, 2023
It’s time for the February 2023 writing prompts, and yet again, I’m borrowing my lists from other sources. It’s the combination of the three, I think, that will lead to interesting things. Words in the first column are from the Kick in the Creatives February 2023 art prompts. They’ve got the most variety! Words in […]
dawn.vogel | March 3, 2022
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 129 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 67 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 2 Resubmissions: 60 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 119 February is a short month, but it feels like this February flew by. There weren’t a ton of rejections, […]
dawn.vogel | February 2, 2022
Reading: I’ve got a few new books I’m reading for reviews these days–one anthology and one novel. Reviews for those will be popping up next month! Watching: We cruised through The Witcher season 2, though we wish we hadn’t finished it quite so quickly, knowing how much of a wait there will be before we get […]
dawn.vogel | January 28, 2022
It’s nearly February, so it’s time for some new writing prompts! This month, I’ve separated out each column to be a person, a place, and a thing, as inspired by a recent “Poetry Thunderdome” event I took place in, where those categories were sourced from the audience, and then we wrote poems very quickly based […]
