June Bugs & Elderberry Wine

#665013

January 24, 2015 at 7:33am

OLD DAME, NEW DOG By Mary Moffett "Estelle, hon? Estelle, where are you?" "Over here, dear." "You know, Estelle, I want to talk to you. It's time you got over yourself. Blue French curls piled on you head, your caked makeup, your smeared bright red lipsick are driving me nuts, hon." "You don't like the way I look, Henry?" "My name is Patrick. Henry was your first husband." "So where is he?" "He died about twent... [Read more]

#664163

August 23, 2009 at 5:52pm

Listen, just reread ==== where some respectful critique became copyrighted in Aug 2008. PHENOMENAL GARDENS AT TEFFOM ESTATES by Mary Moffett This week --- update news from Teffom Estates --- Well, the gardens outside are so tall, I can no longer see around them. So for three days we trim the Artemesia for hours. Breaking for lunch yesterday at noon. Potato salad, shrimp poppers, Mary's Tartar Sauce, ice tea. Whitey's lost. Took most of the afternoon to f... [Read more]

#662157

March 15, 2016 at 10:59am

Almost ready Deletion Day -- Paste -- "It (my take) is for the sake of praising the form as opposed to mistakenly re-defining short stories." Note to self --- Edit and slice to less idiotic blame game. Recently --- From small sampling from my writing contests: Notice: an audacious bend toward erotica for the sake of same -- when not accepted during either EVERYONE CONTEST. Cringing from opening holiday submissions during autumn and winter FOUND odd ... [Read more]

#661922

August 15, 2009 at 11:11am

As soon as I post this ... clicks arrive. Only five a day, then eight then ten. One instantly every time. So AGHAST IN AUGUST for what passes as wc okay. And in a way this explains why there are so many revvers reading/revving bad writing, B & C & D writing. Suffice to say a recent 2009 nl for short story authors who subscribe to same went erroneous. In my book --- oh yeah. This is in the wc archives. Therefore public on the web, on facebook, inkspot and translated into sschpranken... [Read more]

#661606

August 15, 2009 at 3:33pm

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#661155

July 28, 2009 at 8:42am

msn.com search From: The Business of Art, Music & Dance website comes a cool quote pertaining to short story publication. "OLD MAN OF THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway sold 5,300,800 copies in only two days." This came out as a serial short story in 1952. (Oops lost the name of the magazine. Oh these awful notes of mine, sorry. Catchup editing needed.) From: David Madden --- "The 19th Century developed the short story as a more avant garde form." From: David M... [Read more]

#660911

July 26, 2009 at 6:45pm

E-mail message From: Jul 26, 2009, 4:01pm To: JULY NL JULY '09 Contains: A word on Upcoming Discussion Worthy ... & Brief Research on Traditional Short Stories ala TEFF. HI CLUB, Perhaps some of you may know my bugaboo is how in the last twenty years, with the invention of the net, traditional short story lengths became nearly eradicated from the face of the E. You must excuse me whining repetitiously on this topic again this Sunday. Especially s... [Read more]

#658870

July 13, 2009 at 8:03am

SO .. IT CAME AND WENT, my two weeks off from the day job, during the last two weeks of June. The weather was as foul as it could possibly be. Not snow stats by a long shot. But who ever sees that in July anyway? However, the rain did it's best to addict me. I started to love, no adore our daily thunderstorms. Of course, I wasn't going any where. Other than a brief weekend down at the shore, I refused to waste my money. I wasn't ironing two suitcases of just-in-case clo... [Read more]

#658082

July 13, 2009 at 5:50pm

NEVER BUY A FLAT of flowers you can't handle. Sure, you'll probably still sleep at night, even though you certainly know the newbie darlings are waiting and waiting for planting inside larger, roomier, root expansive places ... only you can devise. All of the above add to worries, long after the rock bottom price and the posies themselves demanded "Buy us, today!" So, during that stay-cation, week one, I went to the flea market, farmer's market and whahlah, although it ... [Read more]

#657339

July 31, 2009 at 5:10pm

FIRST TIME, PA RAINY SEASON IN PROGRESS SO! Yes! 'Tis the first of July. When one thinks about climate change they need only look here at my place, where gardens are growing out-of-sight. A friend of mine in California might profess an interest in the goings on with the weather here in PA. If only based upon the premise that dry summers befall out her way while maybe a large deluge of words on rainy skies could sooth those torrid days of summer. Yes, we've had at least thr... [Read more]

#655706

June 22, 2009 at 4:47pm

Yawn, yawn, yawn ... Sorry. I almost contacted sleeping sickness, yawn, reading about clauses. Conclusions are that authors who use clauses (and everyone does) do so generally in the flow of the story. Common sense dictates clause placement in a story. Whereas this treatment of clauses, whether dubbed relative clauses or adominal clauses, in an overall general sense means that the clause modifies the meaning of the noun (adjective clause) or predicates (adverbial clause.) Of cours... [Read more]

#655390

June 24, 2009 at 10:47am

Somewhere in one of my notebooks or private email is more exciting info on modified clauses. Can't wait, can you? Oh my. <><> <><> <> <> <> <><><><><><> OKAY ...TITLE: SECRETS OF GOOD CHICKEN SALAD ALA TEFF When making chicken salad take your best pre-cooked chicken. One you roasted, baked, fried whatever. Does it have a great taste and is leftover? Good. Only use a ... [Read more]

#655263

June 19, 2009 at 8:02am

Enough of the serial NEVER WRITE ABOUT VAMPIRES (in first person narration) which's partially hidden from the internet these many weeks. When the character uses location, self as author and adds author to author hints as on {item:1323687) I stand a shameless author without a hitch. Both are parts of the sotry. How & Why? Because the character is a writer. I am told this bored the one kid, a daughter reading a library book where the narration is from a writer. However,... [Read more]

#655200

August 15, 2009 at 3:41pm

Well there was a word going around ... on modification of all modified clauses from one end of the world to the other. From the South Pole to the North Pole. So far Hodges says there are two types: Adjective types/ adverbial types. TWO!!! While the Chicago Manual of Style aka Chicago on ref shelves ... not present on this desk top .. Chicago the ref manual demands a fussy placement of such modified clauses. Frankly, my dears, I don't give a right bloody, damn. Howev... [Read more]

#654767

June 17, 2009 at 4:55pm

Below on readers may notice a few paragraphs & essays on "confusion encountered while reading." IN JUNE from handwritten notes earlier this week, before I distance myself too far off topic, let's take a look at how confusion can or might occur when both writing and reading a piece. One of the first things one encounters is "cultural confusion." This term explicitly refers to times when readers from a different culture are reading about a culture, usually geogra... [Read more]

#654428

June 14, 2009 at 12:07pm

Writers need practice to maintain an efficient modem of creative genius whenever they are crafting their works. The latter, our finished products take grueling hours, even days. An author of worth is apt to reserve entire pockets of time constraints to write, edit, re-edit, re-write. Then and only then in a fine tuned, rewarding, final last stage an ending phase comes into play. Namely: the daylight hours when under the microscope goes the piece once more for polishing. Othe... [Read more]

#654347

June 17, 2009 at 5:05pm

Beware dog, Lamborghini in overdrive Correction --- TITLE: DON'T TAKE THIS PERSONALLY By Mrs. Mary Moffett, Freelance Journalist RECAP: Library Research 12 Credits via KUTZTOWN U, KUTZTOWN, PA --- non-trad student claiming: General Credits, Education & Librarianship Credits: Jan 1988 -- May, 1991 Subject addressed to all readers of and Welcome --- POTENTIAL, IMAGINARY AUDIENCE This blog: Tie-in for: Think in old school mode of Journalism, a style r... [Read more]

#654073

June 17, 2009 at 5:12pm

When I joined www.writing.com in the autumn of 2004 on Oct 9, there was back then already a very odd happenstance afoot which we still see today, every year, every month and maybe even as much as 100 times per day. Upon joining & using www.writing.com ..... When you receive your opening e-mails from wc's staff you will note invitations to familiarize yourself with writing reviews for works BY other members of this online reading/writing community. This has expanded of course to ... [Read more]

#653776

June 9, 2009 at 8:45am

Okay, there's a storm in progress outside these five-foot windows. The cats were fed, lightning flashes, my bed empty since I'm at my desk. Now comes the comforting sounds of rolling thunder while all the rusty water troughs spew fresh rain water on gardens placed close to the house. We can barely see above our tall Artemesia line, which hides our side porch morphed into tunnel status. I think I probably should turn off this tv, the other tv. Instead, I blog along with something ... [Read more]

#653714

June 8, 2009 at 8:44pm

Oh boy what a fantastic sunny day June delivered in our neck of the woods today. PREVIOUSLY, Downna CLUB, posed questions such as: WHY DO WE WRITE? WHAT ARE YOU READING? IF ONE accepts the premise that we learn how to write from what we read ... Let us now examine a paragraph from: IN THE MOON OF RED PONIES By James Lee Burke. This novel is from his Montana Series featuring lawyer, Billy Bob Holland. Most readers who read Burke probably pat themselves on the ... [Read more]

#653274

June 10, 2009 at 3:56am

JUNE 5, 2009 FROM: Today's important since it is the date my parents were married. Dad's gone now, but my mother's marriage lasted until he died --- over 55 years. Due to entry spot tied to HYPHEN HELL dive straight down from the degrading nuances pertaining to HYPHEN OVERUSE, available today in all sizes, shapes, forms. Straight from the book, shooting from the hip, two holsters blaring hyphens from those who overdo. Ah, how we must seek rules of punctuation for ou... [Read more]

#653183

June 23, 2009 at 11:37am

UPDATE JUNE RECIPES RECIPES GALORE Below in green with a word of condolence for Mr. David Carradine, so sad, so unsolved ... We shall now toast the best from this table, a tribute to the greats who came before ... and Paul Newman, God still can't accept that loss. Okay, now we are sad, so sad, but we must eat .. and it is summertime, and those empty picnic baskets are as empty as my gas tank. Since gas is now $2.65 per gal, just awaitin ... SUNSHINE CARROT SALAD He... [Read more]

#651660

June 5, 2009 at 7:05pm

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#651221

June 5, 2009 at 6:54pm

This blog entry pertains to: E-mail message Date: Sat, May 23, 2009, 6:07pm To: Subject: INTRO: Char List The in progress novella ... NEVER HAVE DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE is written in a sequence of segments which began on my blog: JUNE BUGS & ELDERBERRY WINE in the Spring of 2009. Here is the background on this pen. In the fall & winter of 2006 the character of TEFF turns from blogs about the Iraq Occupation & verbal resistance to this so-called war on terror or... [Read more]

#650289

May 26, 2009 at 7:45am

Wow, writing and writing and writing. The best way to fly which makes my very happy. Bye bye. LOWER ME TIMBERS, HERE THIS PART BE: /////////////// llllllllll !!!!!!!!!!! E-mail message From: http://www.Fiction4sale.highpowersites.com Date: Sun, May 17, 2009, 6:47am To: Subject: Anything in the morning earliest Part TWO: Segment ___ Title: Ghostly, Gangling Manifestation of Beauregard Schaffer. Since Bar Harbor, a pearl on a windy day in ... [Read more]