MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Sharon Palmeri, Beverly Stanislawski, Kathy Flotz, Sharon
Buckman, Bob Moulesong, Tom Spencer, Donna Douglass, Suzy Stueben, Sharon
Dorelli, Marjorie Peterson, Mike Musak, John Boufis, Denise Taylor, Janice
Beier
GUESTS
PRESENT:
Lenore Spitznagel
OLD
BUSINESS:
A vote of approval for the July 2, 2014 minutes was first
given by DONNA DOUGLASS and seconded by BOB MOULESONG.
NEW
BUSINESS:
SHARON PALMERI stated
that she had been asked by the LOFS to start a writer’s group in that
area. She decided to have a meeting at the
LOFS clubhouse on July 14th where ten people attended and signed up
as members. It was decided that they
would continue on the first and third Mondays of each month.
TOM
SPENCER thanked the members of Write-On Hoosiers for the flowers
they had sent during his illness. He
also stated that he had attended the National Federation of Poets Society in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
LITERARY
NEWS:
BOB
MOULESONG stated that the Thomas Centennial Park in Chesterton is
holding a book signing by various authors on July 26th from 10:00
until 2:00P.M. Bob volunteered to attend
and represent Write- On Hoosiers at the event.
SHARON
PALMERI mentioned that the Crown Point library stated they would
like to work with our group to host an event sometime in the spring.
KATHY
FLOTZ stated she had a conversation with Ron Trigg, a member of
Write On Hoosiers, and he had mentioned that his memoir, Alluring Temptress, had
been published; she thought it would be a good idea to have him bring several
of his books to one of our meetings so the members could possibly purchase a
few of them.
READINGS:
DONNA
DOUGLASS read the first four pages of her twelve page memoir, “Kansas Heat.” The memoir began in 1969 when Donna was
beginning graduate school at Indiana University. It was love at first sight when she
encountered a man named Sam during her lunch hour. After exclusive dating during the school year
he asked her to travel to Kansas with him and meet his family, a trip she never
forgot.
BOB
MOULESONG read the third and final part of his story, “Wolf Moon.” In this surprising ending to a very engaging
story, Stavich the poacher, found himself surrounded by two separate wolf packs
that had blocked his retreat back into town.
He found the “perfect bear” he had been searching for at the end of the
story.
SHARON
DORELLI continued with her novel, The Hitchhikers. This part of her story began with Loretta
entering “The Cave,” a local bar, searching for her missing husband of three
months. The second half of the story
told of a pregnant Ana sitting on a grassy cliff with her hands resting on her
“growing belly,” who definitely knew where her husband had gone.
JOHN
BOUFIS read four pages of his work in progress, entitled, “Seeping.”
In the beginning of the story, several people were talking about a
“sarty,” a party where minds transferred into a new cloned body. The story narrowed down to a man named John
who had been murdered at the party, bringing the police to the party and
causing a delay in the transference into his newly cloned body.
DENISE
TAYLOR continued with Chapter 3, “We’re Seniors!” of her novel, All the Little Secrets. In this part of the novel, Beth cannot entice
her younger sister, Kathy, to leave the bathroom so she can make herself
perfect for the first day of her senior year. After finally managing to get
herself ready for school she finds that she is again delayed by her mother,
reminding her to take her insulin shots.
TOM
SPENCER brought his six stanza free verse poem entitled, “Weekend Cowboys.” The poem related the various weekend
motorcycle riders, riding up and down the streets at night, to the cowboys
astride their steeds at night, “their egos to expound.”
DENISE
TAYLOR read three pages of her short horror story entitled, “Midnight Caller.” The story began with Reginald Hawkins, a man
who operated a small broadcasting studio, talking to a woman who appeared to be
a call girl telling of her “enhancements.”
This was followed by a number of other callers, most of them doubting
that she was really a female. The last
caller was “beyond disturbing” when he gave details about Reginald and his life
that only he knew.
MARJORIE
PETERSON read four pages of the beginning of her novel entitled, The
Bitter Ballet. The story began
in Hebner, Alabama with a grandmother talking to her granddaughter, Maddie, as
the granddaughter took her washtub Saturday night bath. The granddaughter began asking about her
mother and father for which she was given “rose colored” answers.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI read her four stanza ballade poem entitled, “Endless Love.” This beautiful poem told of the yearning for
her lover and ending each stanza with the line, “I want to spend my life just
loving you.”
MIKE
MUSAK continued with the revised version of his novel, Habits
Change. In this revised version,
Tom, one of the main characters in the novel, is being chastised by his father
for his irresponsible behavior with women.
The father tried to tell him of the great opportunity he was throwing
away with a career in politics, a design his father had already set in motion
for him.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
SHARON
BUCKMAN
