Blue Moon month??
Posted in: Blue Moon, SLO NightWriters Contest by Debra on October 14, 2009
I must have been wrong about this being a Blue Moon month because I just won another award. I took second place (creative non-fiction) in the:
San Luis Obispo Nightwriters
20th Annual
500-Word Short Story Contest
and
1-Page Poetry Contest
October, 2009
My entry is printed on the “Awards” page.
Blue Moon Day
Posted in: Lillian Dean First Page Writing Contest by Debra on October 04, 2009
Lillian Dean First Page Writing Contest
Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, 2nd Place
October 2009
Lillian Dean First Page Writing Contest
Poetry, 3rd Place
October 2009
My entries are printed on the “Awards” page.
Blue Moon, Again
Posted in: Blue Moon, Writing by Debra on August 06, 2009
I got a poem published in Women’s Press, July/August 2009 issue.
It’s a “BLUE MOON!”
Posted in: Lillian Dean First Page Writing Contest by Debra on September 27, 2008
I wasn’t published, but it’s still a BLUE MOON day–I won the:
Lillian Dean First Page Writing Contest
Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, 3rd Place
September 2008
My entry is printed on the “Awards” page.
What is a blue moon?
Posted in: Blue Moon by Debra on August 16, 2008
Maybe the question should be what a blue moon is to you and me since there seems to be so many definitions of it:
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a rare event
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an extra full moon that occurs in a season (if a season had four full moons, the third would be the blue moon)
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when the moon, not necessarily full, appears bluish
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the second of two full moons to occur in the same calendar month (an error from a mistake in an article in the Sky & Telescope magazine, March 1946)
For my website and my way of thinking, I’m going to go with that whenever I get published, IT’S A BLUE MOON.
While researching a “blue moon”, I came upon: Black, Wet, Full, New, Half, Rising Crescent, Gibbous, Harvest, Lunar, Blood (aka Hunter’s) and Fairy Moons.
What I was starting to get was a headache and then I started to wonder what a “Migraine Moon” would be? Here are “my” many definitions for the term:
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building a new BLOG/Website combo
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entering a writer’s contest
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still recuperating from SCBWI Conferene
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only nine hours sleep in the last two days
I’m going to do the same thing here. For my website, when I am having a difficult time or struggling, I will refer to it as a MIGRAINE MOON.
For all other times, either the moon is waxing, waning or full. Sometimes, I’m lucky enough to see the little cresent with the reflection behind it.
Debra Davis Hinkle
Migraine Moon Day
p.s. I will do most of my posting on the main BLOG. I probably will only post here when I have something personal to say!