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The Moon Crown

@themooncrown.bsky.social
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A weird fiction and psychological horror audio drama wrapped in Filipino & Western mythology. "Do not look directly at the shadowed moon. If you must, you may watch it within the well." themooncrown.com

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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
when one of the most beneficial things you've learned via sound design is how to cut remixes so you only get the parts that won't drive you up the wall... literally tightened it from 5:17 to 2:45. In another I cut a scream, because I listen to it on repeat for hours. No more stress every 3 minutes 💀
a song's wavelengths cut into clips on audacity
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
spies??? in MY cosmic horror romance novel? it's more likely than you think
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The book is so weird in tone. Pastel aesthetic for major parts, childlike eldritch horror, and nonstop gallows humor. Anyway, not weird in tone, but if I write a thing, it's pretty much always going to have mental health and queer rep. The mental health discussion is sort of the point in particular
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Last night I told my partner I figured out the solution to so many things for my book and he was ready for something mind blowing and I just said, "Birthday party. It solves *everything*" btw it's a horror novel
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
trying to describe one of my MC's mundane lives living in a cosmic horror entity and... Finally pinned it down. "It's like a middle manager working in FiDi, commuting in NYC, but in hell."
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Eeler's Choice @eelerschoice.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
When he's not making wet heartbeats, he can be found on The Magnus Protocol from @rustyquill.com, @shadowsatthedoor.bsky.social, @themooncrown.bsky.social and SCP Archives. He's also the producer of Octobers Children- a jack of all trades! Feed Derrick's Lizard: www.indiegogo.com/projects/eel...
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I have a feeling when I open the finale draft (which I think is at least an hour atm) I'll have editor thoughts about things that should be cut. TMC led to more discipline with writing novels, and writing this novel might have helped me figure out how to tell a fairly straightforward story
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
YUP I'm really into the audio drama spinoff of the novel I've been working on. As in, the making playlists kind of "into it". TMC's season 1 finale will come out eventually, but I haven't been able to find my PC parts since moving. So that's the hold up on that one.
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
An audio drama set in the same universe would be so fun though. Just not with any of the current characters I'm working with The world it's set in has an economy and all of this lore that would be fun to build another story around. I've learned a LOT about writing working on this novel.
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Wouldn't be me if I didn't get 90% into a project and went "what if I adapted this to another medium?" Book's nearly there and I'm out here wanting to make a pilot episode for tv for a series about of the main antagonist's arrival in "Hell" and his descent I love the idea though
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Ah, in case anyone is wondering about the lack of anything on the feed - I haven't had a working PC capable of doing much sound work at all since July last year. I'll figure it out, and probably soon! But in the meantime, other bills must be paid 👍
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If I DO delete the account from twitter, it'll have to be after I make a feed announcement to be sure listeners know that there is no longer an official account in that space. In all honesty, I doubt anyone would care enough to use it, but I might as well be cautious. 🧍
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
There's a subreddit, but I really don't have (and as you can probably tell, haven't had) the mental bandwidth for focusing on TMC focused content. I'll of course still post relevant updates here as they come up! My reasoning for leaving TMC up is just a worry about potential misuse of the handle.
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Sup y'all, finally throwing something TMC related on here! If you follow or have followed the show elsewhere, just be aware that any updates that are meant for social media will be on bsky and tumblr at the most. Still considering removing TMC from a certain platform.
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
okay BUT the wild thing is, splitting this up means I'll have written three novels. Holy smokes. Kind of cool. This includes my cyberpunk novel from 2012. I didn't finish it until 2017 but it HAS been beta read and I've worked on it a tad over the years, including last month. Hot damn
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
All of this is null if I'm unable to publish anyway. Promoing TMC has been a hard journey I'm too tired for self publishing 😰 I have hope Structural changes, and potential identity changes, here we go.
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I *could* do it, I have ideas, but I would have liked the journey be from point a to b. The more I think about it, giving Nate's POV room to breathe separately might do him more justice. Focus on Sonya overcoming institutional trauma and building trust, along with Damian's bipolar and identity. hm
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
As it is now he looks cruel because his story is about grappling with the idea of the soul. It's a longer burn. And the thing is, the resolution would be a bit "did they fix everything? did they really?" and then going "NOPE! HAHA! GOTCHA!" at the beginning of book two.
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
It does mean hollowing him out a bit here unfortunately and saving his backstory and POV to be told in a potential part two, or another project. I have faith that his character arc would be great. And maybe it would ultimately be better if separated, I'm not sold on that but it's certainly possible.
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Cutting his relationship with his ex to one book risks losing the nuance of toxic relationships. Though, I have some ideas! I guess this book can be a focus on Sonya and Damian's POVs and leave Nate as a side character. He's not here just for rep, he's a fully fledged person, so maybe that's better.
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
ugh there's no way anyone's going to go for a duology so I just have to forget telling Nate and Nila's perspectives. Which means giving up rep for Nate being demi and minimizing my focus on GAD. Damian's identity might need to be rewritten if I cut out everything in part two
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Cut around 3k down today and placed pivotal backstory sooner so that it feels less like "plot twist, tragic past!" It's so much nicer in this chapter! It's better thematically too ahhhhh
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I mean it's ALWAYS been a twisty cosmic horror katabasis but I've been taking out huge chunks of Dante references 👍
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Every thousand words I cut leads to another two being written, I'm SURE there's a lot to be pared down but as it is now even a halfway split is two chonkers I really like the new additions and things are becoming more coherent, the "solution" for the MCs is making more sense, but AHHHH
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
More book stuff, it's now less Inferno and more so a twisty cosmic horror katabasis And it's looking like it has to be split in two 😭
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
YO I just realized you can add IMAGES to your Spotify playlists?! WHAT today's time sink had been unlocked 👍
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
gotta add it into every chapter because it surprises me every time
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
also my favorite recurring joke is the love interest walking into the middle of a serious discussion between two characters and immediately sneezing idk WHY that's so funny to me, but every time I edit, it makes me bust out laughing and have to explain to my partner that someone sneezed again
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
in typical chaotic evil writer fashion, I've been stuck with my current project, so decided to switch to writing the sequel 👍 Been trying to get my last few chapters finished but instead I've been spending my time editing finished ones instead. Here's to the new year, time to get things done 🎉💜
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
idk idk, what matters is getting it done.
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The other option that I've gone over is splitting it into two, which might be an even harder thing to pitch. Debut novelist with a two-parter, in a weird genre that might be dead by the time I can hand it out? The characters and dialogue might be doing too much of the driving too ugh
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I'm going to die I'm another 7k up from my last update, and there's still major beats to hit I'm sure I'll be able to get it down... It's not like it's PERFECT right now. But that feels so crazy, I'm going to have to be ruthless about killing my darlings when I'm done and I am not ready for this 😭
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
re: memory Every bigger project I've written has SOME kind of use of fractured memory. I need to try to work on a bigger thing where I *don't* do that, but I love playing with it so much ahhh
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
My memory is very, very bad so the details of my older writing is pretty hazy. So, made myself audibly gasp bc I didn't expect one of my MCs to do this sad horrible thing. Now I want to change it, even though it's so crucial omg 😭 my cyberpunk novel is more in line with TMC's vibe of DREAD
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
HONESTLY, the fact that this thing took me six years shows. I should have kept practicing my writing I feel like what skill I had has waned 😭 I'm super interested in shopping it around, because it seems close. New years resolutions!!
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Having trouble finishing my current novel? Why not ADD post-beta editing my first novel that took 6 years to write as is? :) Why not? Surely this is reasonable
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
AH out of curiosity over my own writing style's evolution, I opened up my 1st finished novel which was critiqued and fully beta read *7 years* ago. Never edited it bc I'm a scaredy cat. Guess what my new fixation is. I DID work on Minos in Momo's Inferno today like I mentioned, though!
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I've been struggling with what to do about these DANG mythological figures Dante put in because they're good conflict/plot devices in the OG. I've just been writing them in as is, but I thought of the silliest solution to rework the small nods I have and I'm kind of excited to give them another go 🎉
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
AND THAT'S CONDENSED. What can I say, I love writing mean monologues
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
"...feel, wrapped in the starved, freezing silk of your bed. It isn’t just what you did wrong that nauseates me. It’s who you are. Thanks be to God, for giving you the damnation you deserve. And giving me the chance to tell you that there’s nothing sacred about what you have to offer." I would cry
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
woman goes to Hell, requests poodle skirt in the circle of Greed, refers to herself as having the attractions of a vampire in Lust, nearly commits the grievous sin of eating in Gluttony bc of the cake from Sleeping Beauty, repeatedly apologizes to inanimate objects, and has a rock pet cinnamon roll
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
writing scripts for 2 years shows in how much dialogue I use 💀 one of my fav things to write is my cinnamon roll decimating people. So Lamb coded. The dream of one day hearing these monologues performed ahhhh HONESTLY, I feel all of the MCs are cinnamon roles. Opposite of my usual writing
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'm at 128k in the novel and I've been trying to cut it down and refine it but it's so tough! I hope something comes of this. I know it's tooting my own horn but I think it's a really sweet love story (I wouldn't still be writing it if I didn't love it, after all) and I'd be so happy to share it 😭
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
ok but they DO mean a whole lot when you don't want your work tossed in the bin for being double what literary agents want though 💀
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Focused on fixing telling and nuance in the first four chapters and trying to slash the word count today, and I've jumped in wc working on a new chapter. Ultimately, numbers don't mean a whole lot! It's just a question of finishing and gutting what doesn't work. I'm glad I wrote at all today tho 😵
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm proud of myself for writing so much but I still have a few circles + their inner-circles of hell to write about and the thing is largely dialog 😭 Tinkering with and adapting and writing and rewriting audio drama stuff over the course of two years has certainly done Something™ to me
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
daily crisis over how I have 114k words, and this monster isn't done, and it's going to be so hard to pitch if I can't edit it down to sub-110 must focus on finishing, do not look at pubtips, do not play with query letters 💀 Listening to "Write Your Novel from the Middle" though 👍
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Thank you so so much for the support! 🥰
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
I don't think I'll hit my 100k in a month goal but not too shabby so far, considering I've done a lot of editing too!🎉
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The Moon Crown @themooncrown.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
so, like, here's what 80k words looks like in 25 days (i got the wrist brace for drawing last month, multipurpose tools hell yeah)
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