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Put Your Characters at Odds with One Another

Rylie and Eskador are more alike that Rylie and Jason

Where I Found the Idea for Last Wish

Last Wish is the story of June, a woman who loves animals and has developed a bakery for dogs and their humans. She and Michael were in love throughout high school and college, but a choice June made drove them apart. The story opens after Attorney Michael has given up a prime position in Washington, […]

Use Pinterest to Enhance Your Writing

Pinterest is an under-used tool that can help to enrich your writing. It costs nothing to use except time, but beware. Pinterest is also the biggest rabbit hole in the garden. It’s easy to spend hours delightfully exploring and building boards.Populate for PersonalityWhen I have an idea for a story, I build a vision board […]

Rylie Davis-Remember Not’s Heroine

When Rylie leads Eskador across the showgrounds parking lot in the beginning of REMEMBER NOT, she walks in the culmination of victories won over ten years. She’s focused on Eskador’s welfare; keeping him safe and providing the exercise he needs. She understands the damage this horse, with his short fuse and his precarious mental state, […]

3 Things That Could Strengthen Your Platform

In today’s world, a platform is crucial for anyone in business. This presence is partly who you are, partly what you do or have to say, but mostly reach. How many people in your target audience can you reach to involve in who you are and what you do? There are so many ways to develop […]

TRUST

Write Horses Right-TrustThese are the show notes from TRUST: Rarely did the historical horse have a trainer intent on cultivating trust. Horsemen wanted obedience and submission. Empathy with a horse was not considered manly. It took too much time to train a horse. It was much faster to break him. Most people lacked the knowledge, or […]

The Horseman’s Outlook-Historical

How Was the Horse Viewed in the 1800s?In this Write Horses Right video on the Historical American Horse we talk about how the outlook of horsemen in previous centuries might differ from how we see horses today. We discuss Horse Whisperers of old and some lethal superstitions surrounding people who talked with horses.  Here are the […]

The Horseman’s Outlook-Write Horses Right-Historical

How Was the Horse Viewed in the 1800s?In this Write Horses Right video on the Historical American Horse we talk about how the outlook of horsemen in previous centuries might differ from how we see horses today. We discuss Horse Whisperers of old and some lethal superstitions surrounding people who talked with horses.  Here are the […]

You Can Write About Horses Authentically

Why Worry About Horse Facts?Horse lovers are passionate people and when they read a horse story, or a story that has a horse in it, they look to see if the author got the details right. That cowboy in the story needs to get his terminology right or the reader who is educated in horse […]

Making Videos With Ai

Since I have a lot of horizontal footage of horses on my computer, I'm always frustrated iMovie doesn't render videos in the vertical format for YouTube shorts. I’ve searched for programs to solve this issue and had high hopes when I found Lumen5. You should know, I have no affiliation with Lumen5. Making videos is […]