Grimby’s Gratitude – A Horse and Her Girl the E-Newsletter of Goldeen Ogawa • Issue 17, April 2019 Originally posted for Patrons on April 5 on Patreon What have I done? Cleanups for “All The King’s Mages” (The Camilliad, Book 2) Edits for “Paving the Road to Hell” and “Escape Plan” (Arcana 2.8 and 2.9). Read-through of Lucena …
I had to put my horse down yesterday. It has been a hard couple of weeks, and I am a cauldron of conflicting emotions right now. My horse—her name is Emmy—has been a huge part of my life for almost twenty years. I’ve had her since she was six and I was eleven, and in …
Last year I was approached about doing a series of four elemental horses in the same style as my Planet Horses. I found the idea attractive, though due to the size of the project I recommended to my client that we take things one at a time. I was pleasantly surprised when he turned out …
My mom (the Wonderful Mother so often alluded to on this blog) always gets the latest gadgets on her phone. Recently she upgraded the camera and got the ability to take “burst photos.” That is, you press down the shutter button and the camera takes dozens of pictures per second until you take your finger …
<-Back to Index <-Previous Chapter THE PEDESTRIAN’S GUIDE TO WRITING HORSES 7: Further Reading Aside from research, it is a good idea to read some books where the author got their horses right. My favorite example is The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis. Even though the horses are Narnian Talking Animals, they are …
<-Back to Index <-Previous Chapter THE PEDESTRIAN’S GUIDE TO WRITING HORSES 6: Illness and Injury First, a basic Cover My Back announcement: I am not a vet. I have twenty-odd years of experience with horses and I’ve seen a lot of things in that time, but I do not have the training, the skills, or …
<-Back to Index <-Previous Chapter THE PEDESTRIAN’S GUIDE TO WRITING HORSES 5: Care and Maintenance Horses require a great deal of work, especially if you want to use them in your Quest to Defeat the Dark Lord. The easiest way to care for a horse is to leave it out on a grass pasture with …
<–Back to Index <-Previous Chapter THE PEDESTRIAN’S GUIDE TO WRITING HORSES 4: Practicality Let me make one thing clear: Horses are NOT bicycles. As you may have learned from the previous chapters, horses are large, unpredictable, and opinionated. They are also surprisingly injury-prone (see Chapter 6: Illness and Injury). All this makes them (by modern …
<-Back to Index <-Previous Chapter THE PEDESTRIAN’S GUIDE TO WRITING HORSES 3: Personality The idea of the loyal mount is not a myth. Horses are, in their way, as loyal as dogs—but at the same time so unlike dogs that when they are depicted as such I get very upset. If cats are independent …
<–Back to Index <–Previous Chapter THE PEDESTRIAN’S GUIDE TO WRITING HORSES 2: Physicality The thing that most people notice when they meet a real life horse for the first time, and the thing that a lot of writers who have never met a horse get wrong, is their size. Horses are big animals. They are …
