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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

Another year, another blog look-back (here are the look-backs from the previous years: 2024, 2023). This year things have been a bit thin around here on daymooncrowmoon.com (which is particularly too bad, considering that this year’s Serial Steam-of-Consciousness Story, ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’ is my favorite of the SSCSs posted so far, and then I wasn’t around much with proper posts to give it much company, alas, alack!). This thinness would be easy to blame on the fact…

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composite of icon images for different story realms, with only the SSCS icon image in full color (2025)
2025 Writing Progress

2025 Writing Progress

Well, once again it is the time of year when I’d like to post up how my writing progress has gone for the year.  For past years, the posts are at:  2024,  2023. This year I’ve been kind of dreading putting this post together, because 2025 has not been a good writing year for me.  Instead 2025 has been a lot in terms of life events, especially in the first half of the year, and that has translated on the…

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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2024 Look-Back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2024 Look-Back

Well, the New Year is almost upon us, and so it’s time again that I’d like to look back at the year and see what I did with this blog and website in 2024.  I did the same thing last year (which you can see here if you’d like) and, because I am lazy, I think I’ll stick to the same format as last time.  Then, anyone who wants to do a side-by-side comparison of the two years (or am…

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Introduce-the-Story Themes: SSCS02 – How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters

Introduce-the-Story Themes: SSCS02 – How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters

Last year, after I had finished posting all of the installments for my first SSCS (Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory),I put up a post talking about different aspects of the story and/or the writing process, in the same vein as the pieces authors sometimes do when, for example, they’re doing a blog tour to promote their new book. Now that all of the installments have been posted for my most recent SSCS, How to Catch…

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New Site Pages: Stories & FAQ

New Site Pages: Stories & FAQ

Quick update for all those who don’t regularly stare at the top menu-bar of this site: I recently posted up two new static pages for the site! One is a Stories page.  It has a list with links to all of the stories I currently have out and available (all 1 and ½ of them!).  And the other is an FAQ page.  It is currently populated with answers to three questions nobody’s ever actually asked me before! I am doing…

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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2023 Look-back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2023 Look-back

Happy Solstice! The 2024 new year is coming soon, and with it, I’ll be hitting the 1-year mark of having this blog.  Therefore, for the final, regular (non-weekly-garden) post of the year, I’d like to do a look-back of what I’ve done with this blog over the course of 2023.  When it comes to any sort of hobby, I’m definitely prone to, and enjoy, tabulating the various stuff associated with it.  And so, without further ado: General Accomplishments 1. I…

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Introduce-the-Story Themes: SSCS01 – Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory

Introduce-the-Story Themes: SSCS01 – Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory

Anxious Disclaimer: Okay, so this post may likely come off as really self-involved.  But, well, this is a blog, and lots of blogs are pretty self-involved, almost by definition.  Also, I know perfectly well there will be lots more self-involved blog posts to come.  So, I’m hemming and hawing here at the top probably because this has to do with my writing, and writing has been a dream of mine for a really long time, and that makes it lots…

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Milestone! First Published Short Story!

Milestone! First Published Short Story!

So!  Did you catch that?  I just published a short story (technically, at just over 10,000 words, some people would call ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’ a novelette – but I’m not sure I’m ready to consider myself quite that fancy). Now, you might be asking: Published? Where? Answer: Here.  On my blog.  This really does count as publishing. Merriam-Webster defines ‘publish’ as “to disseminate to the public” (and it defines ‘disseminate’ as “to spread…

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A Wish-I-Could-Post-About-Writing Post

A Wish-I-Could-Post-About-Writing Post

Okay.  So.  I’d really like to write a blog post on something to do with writing and/or my stories.  But it seems…like it would be inappropriate at this particular juncture?  I’ve got nothing published so far, except for half of my first Serial-Steam-of-Consciousness Story (SSCS; on this blog).  And realistically it’s going to be years before any of my work is noticeably more available than that. (Okay, to be perfectly accurate: In high school, 2 or 3 of my poems…

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Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Stories (SSCS’s)

Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Stories (SSCS’s)

My Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Stories (SSCS’s) are a series of stories that I started in 2018 as something to dabble with, but that I picked up in earnest in 2019. I’m a very slow writer, and at the end of 2018 I had just finished the first draft of my 2nd book. That meant that 2019 was staring down the barrel of a lot of revision time. I like revising, but I’m very slow at that too, and my first drafts…

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