Searching for Good Looking Cowboys

We writers spend a lot of time online looking up stuff. Often, we search out pictures and photographs for inspirations. Places, clothing, buildings, events, and, of course, characters. I like to find pictures of people who resemble what I imagine my hero and heroine look like and keep those pictures handy while I work on the book.

Seeing as I write contemporary westerns, I’m frequently Googling “good looking cowboy”. Many of the images that come up are what you’d expect and what I’m looking for. Like this one:

Then, there are pictures of cowboys I wouldn’t exactly call “good looking” and not what I had in mind for hero inspiration. (seriously, what’s with the cat?)

 

While this isn’t the kind of cowboy I was looking for, he’s certainly cute and maybe good for hero inspiration thirty years down the road.

Other pictures that pop up don’t have anything to do with the kind of cowboys I write.

 

Tell me, why do animal pictures always appear in my searches? They have nothing to do with good looking cowboys, either — though they are funny.

Then there are the pictures that truly confound me  I can’t begin to fathom why these come up in my search for cowboys.

Well, I’m through playing around online. Time to get serious and crank out a few pages. Wait….is that a picture of Scott Eastwood that just appeared?

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