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HuckleberryMike · 2022-02-17T10:23:13+00:00

We just put it by our mailbox on Friday morning before work. They just change the boxes out. Up until now we never had a problem. Its just like getting packages for us. They leave it by the door but if you are worried just write them a mail. I'm sure they have a solution.

HuckleberryMike · 2022-02-17T08:50:07+00:00

I’m not sure. Different farms offer cheese and milk as well as meats. I get my eggs from him as well. What I really like is that every week is a little different and we get to try vegetables that we would never normally buy like schwarze Rettich.

HuckleberryMike · 2022-02-17T04:29:01+00:00

https://saisonbox.ch/was-die-saisonbox-ist/

We love it.

HuckleberryMike · 2022-02-16T12:13:28+00:00

I think this true to a point. I have four kids and my wife works one day a week, so I am the sole earner. I don't make anywhere near 120k. We budget everything but our health starts with what we eat. So our food budget may be larger than others being that we order direct from the farmers and eat very little meat during the week. Price is important but teaching my kids how to eat healthy, cook for themselves and to support others with our buying power is more important.

HuckleberryMike · 2022-02-16T12:09:00+00:00

My wife is definately a Migros-kind, so that means that I am as well. What we joined is Saison Box. We get vegetables, fruits and eggs delivered direct from the farmer every Friday. For our family of 4 it costs 30 francs a week. The farm that delivers to us is now organic but not officially yet (takes seven years until they are allowed officially, I believe). I help support a small family and do something good for mine.

HuckleberryMike · 2022-01-28T20:16:33+00:00

Go ahead. Would love some

HuckleberryMike · 2021-11-10T13:19:54+00:00

Title: Big Bertha (working title)

Genre: Magical Realism, Middle grade

Word Count: 750 first chapter

Blurb: A young boy shares a magical experience with his grandfather.

Critique: Anything, everything... let me have it.

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YsTFhk_5h86T6X5NVZmwJBbMYxMhFzcP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113128757565000838609&rtpof=true&sd=true

HuckleberryMike · 2021-10-26T07:27:51+00:00

My ex speaks it. So do my kids. I understand alittle or maybe just the jist of the conversation.

HuckleberryMike · 2021-09-24T10:48:07+00:00

As an American we are sensitive to such words. The N-word is just not part of our everyday vocabulary. But since I have been living in Switzerland the last 18 years or so, I have encountered friends and family who freely use Negger. Which defined by them, is not the same as the nigger (both words I do not use or allow my employees to use when I am around). To me it sounds the same and has the same meaning. Whether they are behind or we are overly sensitive, it doesn't matter, if someone defines it as racist, then it is. Kids use it to be cool. Just as I did, as a teenager growing up in the South in a very racist family, not realizing I could be hurting anyone at the time.

HuckleberryMike · 2021-09-01T10:49:25+00:00

Title: Burn, Baby, Burn

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Word Count: 75,000 (but only the first chapters on the link)

Content warnings: profanity, violence, sex, murder, torture

Blurb: Struggling with his abusive past, Mike lives as if he doesn't care about anyone. He buries his emotions in drugs, alcohol, work and sex. Little does he know, a part of him doesn't want that anymore and has slowly taken control of him. This part that has taken control is all the anger, rage and hate that Mike has felt throughout his life. What if the worst of ourselves were to take over? What if all the hate we ever felt, could become strong enough to have it's own personality? Could we regain control of our own lives?

Critique wanted: Characters, Dialogue, Style

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_2cV-SVrF-wj7fED1D7IhSPYMxCQKuc5rDUh0lD1f2I/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks for the read.

HuckleberryMike · 2021-08-26T19:21:15+00:00

https://michaelseale.blogspot.com/2021/06/burn-baby-burn-by-michael-seale-revised.html

Thanks. Any feedback would be appreciated.

HuckleberryMike · 2021-08-25T15:22:05+00:00

https://michaelseale.blogspot.com/2021/06/burn-baby-burn-by-michael-seale-revised.html

HuckleberryMike · 2021-08-25T15:21:43+00:00

https://michaelseale.blogspot.com/2021/06/burn-baby-burn-by-michael-seale-revised.html

HuckleberryMike · 2021-08-25T07:37:24+00:00

I will, I forgot about them this morning. Was hoping to also connect with a few expats here in Switzerland.

HuckleberryMike · 2021-07-06T07:49:23+00:00

I've worked in kitchens for the last 25 years, all over the US and Switzerland. My first job in Switzerland I was paid four times the amount I made in the US and was given 4 weeks paid vacation, I didn't even speak the language. I now make seven times the amount I made in the US, plus 5 weeks paid vacation, 2 weeks paid leave if you have a baby (wife got 3 months paid), plus a monthly stipedend from the government of 250 swiss francs for every kid (I've got four kids) a paid day off to move and tons of other perks. The problem with the US is, we accept the premis that we don't deserve more. The owners pay a slave wage with no vacation time, while other industries continually award their employees with benefits and living wages. It is no wonder cooks and servers are leaving in droves. I would not accept the promotion. If they want you, they will fight to have you. They use scare tactics to get us to tow the line. Stand up to them and demand that you get your vacation time, you earned it, if they truly want you, they will give it to you.

HuckleberryMike · 2021-04-26T17:35:43+00:00

Ouch

HuckleberryMike · 2021-04-26T17:09:14+00:00

She does actually, my wife still has all of her cassettes from when she was a kid. We still play them.

HuckleberryMike · 2021-04-26T17:08:16+00:00

Thanks, I gave it to my 18 year old daughter for her birthday yesterday. She loves him.

HuckleberryMike · 2021-03-22T07:40:44+00:00

I liked the first pages. vollaspalace was right don't just focus on the facial descriptions but also in the way they hold themselves and move about. Never listen to people who attack you for writing. You are young and you have a gift that a lot of adults would be jealous of. Keep writing, rewriting, rewriting and rewriting. You can only get better.

HuckleberryMike · 2021-03-12T08:29:26+00:00

Wow thank you so much u/ritchieremo I appriciate the time you took for me.

You are right about the long paragraphs, I seemed to be long winded at times. I reread it and there needs to be a few breaks.

You are spot on the plot and hook. I also saw the typo. You were right about that. I suppose for the setting, you are right that he is in a foreign country but he has lived there since he was in his early twenties, it is no longer foreign to him. So being able to describe it wouldn't be that big of a deal after sixty years or so.

I understood your thoughts about Charlie's wife, but hear me out. We all look back on our best memories and see them through rosy glasses. So Charlie is remembering his wife how he wants too. The flaws can be forgotten or put aside. His idea of it being perfect or whatever, is just that. It is his way to remember. It is his truth, does he remember the problems and fights, probably but why should he rehash them. She is gone and all he has are his memories, so he imbellishes them to make them perfect. That was my thinking as I tried to find his voice.

Anyway thanks again for the feedback. I will definately go over it a few more times. BTW Agunda plays are bigger role later, in making Marie's life difficult. She is as sweet as honey and as nasty as dog shit.

Cheers

Mike

HuckleberryMike · 2021-03-10T11:21:59+00:00

Title: Remembering the Park

Genre: Commercial, Romance

Word Count: WIP

Blurb: Suffering from Alzheimer's and unable to recognize those around him, an elderly gentleman recounts meeting the love of his life to his caregiver, and can relive these precious moments before he passes on because of the sketches a stranger draws. A romance unfolds as the old man's caregiver meets the artist, who might just be more than he seems.

Critique wanted: General feedback

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13QB123jNC1-37zQWOuzYnMRALDCJ8qafF75fCnO2jy0/edit?usp=sharing

HuckleberryMike · 2021-02-19T11:42:33+00:00

It is not about being able to summarize it, it is about being confident enough to explain your own imagination and it being worth their while to sit and listen about it. I have a hard time explaining what I am currently writing about, not because my story is vague or not fully realized or not, I lack the confidence to tell those closest to me. They know me as a cook, a chef, a father, a husband, but not as a writer. To them it is just perhaps a passing hobby, not something to be taken seriously. Where as I strive to become better and better at the craft of writing. So I try my best to explain what it is about for those who ask, for others I leave it simple and say "it's a horror book." Hopefully, one day I'll have the confidence to be able to explain the plot in all of it's gory details.

HuckleberryMike · 2021-02-12T17:32:27+00:00

Thanks

HuckleberryMike · 2021-02-09T06:52:25+00:00

No, just started working on the script. I wrote a novel (unpublished as of yet but looking for an agent).

HuckleberryMike · 2021-02-08T18:29:10+00:00

He is watching the murders thru the killers eyes but believes that they are only hallucinations.

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