Because I spent the year after my freshman year “reconsidering [my] educational objectives” at the behest of the university administration, I was a year older than my new classmates, and in that year had had experiences that opened up eyes and mind considerably. Details not important in this post. One evening after dinner, five or Read More…
Month: December 2020
Revision Review
Since revision this time digs right into the foundation structure of NewBook, a post on where the revision is at the moment seems a good time to discuss the kinds of problems a book’s underpinnings or foundation–the deeper structure–can have, and strategies for fixing same. This is not a problem I have often, but it’s Read More…
Equine Ghost? No, Just Sneaky
Rags has twice appeared where he hadn’t been seen, and has several times been missed while standing in the shade in summer. You would not think a nice round (small but round) splashy-patterned black and white horse could disappear in broad, or even lean daylight, but…he does. Tonight at feeding time, I looked (thought I Read More…
Holiday for Horses
Merry Christmas for those who observe, and if that’s not you, here’s wishing you a joyful and peaceful winter holiday season. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the cruel owner who’s been forcing poor Tigger to take his supery dupery joint supplement felt that she could not force her horse to eat something he hated on Read More…
Rags & Tigger & Elizabeth: I Don’t CARE What It Cost, I Hate It!
Tigger’s very expensive and back-ordered supplement arrived. I opened it; it’s a granular and good-smelling (to me) brown stuff with lots of good-for-joints in it. It has a measure. (Everything has a measure, and you have to dig for them in the plastic tubs these things come in. Yes, we re-use the tubs. My favorite Read More…
Clear Sky, Two Planets, Two Old Humans
We just came in from looking at the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, the closest they will appear from Earth for another 800 years when–needless to say–two 75+ year olds aren’t going to be here to look. We stood by the south barn lot fence in the back yard, resting binoculars on the fence because Read More…
Rags & Tigger & Elizabeth: Are You OK?
One of my favorite horse sites on You Tube is Elphick Event Ponies, and a few weeks ago, Meg Elphic posted a video “test” of two of her horses, Ari, a 3 year old pinto gelding just coming into training, and Dee, an older Connemara mare. Tests were conducted individually, in two different places: Ari’s Read More…
Tigger and Ragtime: Buddies
After a cold night, what a horse wants is a good breakfast and then a sunny day without too much wind…the two of them stood side by side, broadside to the early sun to catch the first warmth of its rays. Then they burned through a good amount of hay. And then, full and at Read More…
Revision, revision, revision: still not done?
Still not done. Little chunks have come out. Bigger chunks of new material have appeared. Sequence tangles have been extricated, laid out, and put in order, with necessary transitions. It’s taken this long to get the first thirty-two days of the story cleaned up, and to introduce things that were left out. It’s gonna be Read More…
SF and Soup
When a science fiction writer makes soup and then wants to take a picture of it…my, what strange things get into into the picture. Is that cute little alien *pregnant*??? What’s with the one straddling a big of carrot and holding (?) a black bean? (This being a winter soup, it started with 4 cups Read More…