My stepmom just quit her teaching job to write full time. I am so proud of her for taking an opportunity to fulfill a life-long dream. She’s writing children’s books and also some adult fiction. We had a long conversation about writing, characters, the stories she is working on, and writing in general. Non-writers do not understand about characters. In order to make a character seem alive to a reader, the writer has...
Continue reading...September 19, 2006
Good-looking Mare
Isis seemed like a completely different horse this evening. She was perky and interested in everything. She has been getting into things too. Since she started back on grain, she has apparently been throwing the halters off of the walls. Anything within her reach is not safe. That’s my girl! She just seemed so much livelier tonight. The grain is really making a difference. So far, she is also eating the corn oil....
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