I’m really geeky and enjoy historical re-enactments. Not too big on Civil War ones, but they are fascinating; I’d love to see a Revolutionary War re-enactment.

Amanda, definitely go check out Marsha Moyer! I don’t know if I could exactly pinpoint what it is about a particular sentence that makes me like it so much. As I said: she and I are using the same dictionary of words; she’s just using them better. I suppose the key is that what you write is supposed to clarify, explain, create the character on the page–and if what you use does these things so well that a reader feels this person is surely someone who exists in the world because they’ve felt the exact same way the character’s feeling, they’ve just have never been able to describe it so effectively…that’s brilliant writing.

I’m as full as a tick.

Hotter than a hornet.

Heavens to Betsy.

The (bleep’s) going to hit the fan.

E-gads!

‘It’s goin’ to come a flood’ or ‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ or ‘It come a gully washer’.

Oh, I’d love to be stranded on an historical battlefield. Problem is, I’d never want to leave! That is, until I got hungry and couldn’t hunt my own game. I love historical battlefields, Hellion.

I think I will be checking out Marsha Moyer. I love what different authors can do with language but I’m like Irish in that I shudder to try and analyze why I liked it at the metaphor level. I like to say I liked it or I didn’t like it. My husband who minored in English gets exasperated with me when I try to disparage my literary knowledge–never felt like English was my strong suit.

I loved Eloisa’s love scene with Josie and Mayne where she used the phrase “like a forgiving wind…”. Sorry I can’t remember the rest.

How about the medical–”He was on me like a rash”.

Just stopping by real quick to say hi.

Love the new ship.

Renee

What is the one that goes something like, “Well I’ll be dipped in sh*t”? And I think something about “sh*t on a log”. Maybe as fast as….?

Janga, I totally agree. We need to send Teresa flowers. She got me started but you kept fueling the fire with “Hey, did you know there was another one?” and on and on. I’m going to miss that series. But I’m with you. I’d read anything she wrote at this point. The phone book would be endlessly fascinating with her twist on it.