History That Never Was

Home of Dawn Vogel: Writer, Historian, Geek

In Situ interview up!

| March 28, 2011

As part of the lead up to the publication of In Situ, Dagan Books has been publishing interviews with the authors of the stories. My interview is up here. My story for this anthology is in the form of a nineteenth century archaeologist’s field notes/journal. The protagonist, Doctor Taggart, finds a little more than he […]

First Person vs. Third Person

| March 11, 2011

I posed this question to my writing group last night, which got me some answers, but it also sent us off on wild tangents about 4th person and 5th person (among other things). When writing a story, how do you decide if you want to tell the story in the first person or in the […]

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 […]

Flash Piece: Green Lung

| March 1, 2011

It occurred to me earlier today that one of my stories is available online. (It also occurred to me that I should add it to my publications list!) This story was one that I worked on, in two very different versions, for quite a while. I submitted one version of the story to one venue, […]

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 […]

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 […]