Pets and More Pets ? Facts About Writing Horse Fictional Stories

There are two camps of opinion about the issue of fiction writing. One camp asserts that a writer can?t write well unless he writes about a subject he?s absolutely at home in. The other camp ridicules this thought, because it propounds that a writer delivers most when he is learning as he?s writing. I?m certain that both sides have it right, because I think a writer can simultaneously write about what he already knows and learn more as he writes.

I do have one exception, though. I don?t think writing about horses is something that can be done satisfactorily by an author who is on a learning process. Only an author who has lived horses for a long time can do justice to the topic. The writer should have been around horses so long and so deep that they?re capable of telepathy with them. And that kind of depth doesn?t come with racing course or show experience watching from the stands with a pair of binoculars.

One way you can make out an inexperienced author is his or her tendency to use language that is not actually a part of normal life in horse circles, even if they are correct in terms of dictionary definitions. Each human field of enterprise has its own lingo, and so does the world of horses. When a novice writer incorporates terms in their writing that can sound correct, but are just not used by the genuine pros, that writer is diluting the impact of their writing. Take for instance the word corral. It?s a correct word that can be utilised in the proper horse context. Nevertheless it is just not a word utilised by what I?ll refer to as horse folks. Horse persons use the word paddock. To the amateur writer, horses are turned out into corrals, to the genuine horse person; they are turned out into paddocks.

Or take the word blinkers and blinders. To the beginner author, they?re jointly changeable. But the horse person knows that blinkers are used on race horses and blinders are used on horses drawing carts or other vehicles.

Authors slip up in so many descriptions. The arena of horses has its characters, both equine and human, but no true rider would ever lead his or her horse from the right or mount it from the right side, unless in a awful emergency. In all my years as a horse person, I haven?t ever been able to figure out the significance of mounting your pony and riding off into the sunset. The sole reason you would really do that is if you are endeavoring to catch up with the sun, and a pony is not really the best transport for that purpose. I can just think that the riding-into-the-sunset eventuality makes for good visuals in westerns.

I also feel just like laughing my head off when I read about or see in a movie or a TV series people sneaking into a barn full or horses and sneaking off with one or two of them with nary a murmur. Try it, and you will be surprised by the din the other horses can raise. Every other pony in that barn would be screaming at someone to dial 911, sorry, that was just made up. In reality, every other pony in that barn would assume that you entered the barn to give them an early breakfast, and would nicker and harumph in expectation. One or two horses doing that in unison would sound like the charge of the Light Brigade.

When speaking, a novice would show himself or herself with their tendency to use ten words instead of two. The true horse person will be able to get his or her message across with the absolute minimum amount of words. The wannabe horse person will tend to be long-winded and descriptive.

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