dawn.vogel | January 18, 2012
One of the projects that I’ve been working on for the past couple of weeks is a character background for a Changeling game that I’ll be playing in, beginning later this month. I’ve been writing character backgrounds for most of the games I’ve been in for more than 10 years now. Even if they’re not […]
dawn.vogel | January 17, 2012
The Location: A beautiful rental property on Harstine Island. Overall, it was great! There were some minor oddities that could have become an issue, but didn’t. Like the fact that it only had 2 bathrooms, and only one of them had a shower! With 9 women in the house, that could have become disastrous, but […]
dawn.vogel | January 13, 2012
In just a few more hours, my ride arrives to drop me off at my other ride, which will then take me to a writer’s retreat. We’ve got 9 women writers who are renting a house for the long weekend in order to get some writing done. I’ve personally got seven different projects that I […]
dawn.vogel | December 29, 2011
So it’s not quite the end of 2011, but I thought I’d post a quick update about my writing over the course of the year. I wrote four new short stories in 2011, one of which I just finished on Christmas Eve. One of those stories, “Unexpected Sparx,” was accepted for publication, and appears in […]
dawn.vogel | November 29, 2011
So first, I realized that I didn’t want to write my vampire novel. Okay, that’s fixable. Then, I cobbled together an outline for my YA steampunk novel, and it looked awesome. But then I started writing. And I was writing about 1,000 word chapters, because that’s what felt right. But when you only have 25 […]
dawn.vogel | November 1, 2011
So I started out at the midnight write-in last night working on a sort of urban fantasy/horror novel involving vampires. I got about 1,300 words done, and called it a night. In the course of that, I switched from third person to first person, because the words just weren’t coming out in third person. Then […]
dawn.vogel | October 30, 2011
The hubbie is off at World Fantasy Con, which means I’ve learned a couple of things. 1) Cats do not like it when you try to stick stuff in their mouth. 2) It’s hard to cook for one person. 3) Movies are great for learning how to structure the pacing a novel. I say this […]
dawn.vogel | October 5, 2011
Well, I haven’t been quite as productive as I may have dreamed I could be, but I have made some progress on my stories. The untitled fantasy story is still untitled, but it’s nearing completion. I have one scene to write (something that came up in review), and I need to add a bit of […]
dawn.vogel | September 9, 2011
I’m posting this up for the world to see, in the hopes that it will help me to stay on target. Title pending (fantasy with a slight tinge of horror): About 1,400 words in. I’ve tentatively outlined out what the remaining scenes need to be, and now I just have to write them. I’m hoping […]
dawn.vogel | July 16, 2011
I participated in a bit of an experiment today. The goal: have five authors work collaboratively on a story to conclude an upcoming anthology. Having never worked on anything of the sort, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I also went in feeling a wee bit intimidated, as everyone else involved is a bit more […]
