A wet morning, turning windy, and colder. I would prefer, with a forecast of a hard frost in the night, to have both horses in some kind of horse clothing. But Tigger accepted a cover only last year, briefly, after his accident, when he was badly enough hurt not to resist as usual. As soon Read More…
Month: December 2020
Rags & Tigger & Elizabeth
Yesterday, I haltered Rags and put him through some groundwork exercises, including walking between poles, then over poles, then turning 360 degrees inside a square, and so on. Tigger was a bit intrusive, walking right behind Rags sniffing his butt or walking behind/ beside where he could bump Rags with his nose in the flank. Read More…
Another Note on Research
Having just explained that I do not outline books…you may wonder how I can research backgrounds, both physical and social. As of today, I can offer a new example. Usually, when I start a book, especially in a series, I have in mind a setting of some sort…my characters have shown me where they are, Read More…
Revision, Revision, Where Art Thou, O Revision?
Made it through the first 30 days of this book (book-days, not our days) and straightened out the more obvious problems. Then came a floating scene…one I’d labeled “move to where it belongs”…that dragged behind it a big important Event connected–alas–to a particular timing that no longer had space to fit it in. Logical space. Read More…
The Agent Calls
My writing for publication goes first to my agent, then to an editor, then (if accepted) to a copy editor and production. So the agent’s call or email to give me his reaction to whatever (book, shorter work) is usually my first *professional* assessment of its strengths and weaknesses. The eyes on the work are Read More…