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Emotional Beats, emotions, feelings, horse riding, horses, riding, Writing
Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, continuing Part 3 of the book: Other Beats. This short chapter (I’ll make it up next week, I promise) deals with:
Horses
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Like fights, horses are a staple of many a genre. Even if not many of them are around nowadays, it pays to know how to describe our heroes’ interactions with them.
- He tightened the cinch on the last horse.
- With her bow slung across her shoulder and back, the quiver of arrows attached to the horse’s saddle, she pulled on the reins.
- He stroked the horse’s powerful neck, being nuzzled at the same time.
- She stroked the horse’s wide, flat nose.
- She stroked the horse’s head, dismounted and stretched her body. “I feel like I have spent my entire life on his back,” she said, continuing to twist and stretch the kinks that had grown with each mile ridden.
- The horse stood there shaking, a low groaning sound bubbling from his mouth.
- Molten steel coursing through his veins, he mounted the horse, rode the valley floor and marched up the hillside, the horse in tow.
- He yanked the reins.
- He hefted his sword and started his horse into the ravine.
- His hands resting on the pommel, he relaxed into the ambling ride.
- The horse stomped and danced, ears flattened at the tight hold on the reins.
- Leaning forward, he patted the big horse’s neck.
Next week: Houses and Scenery. View all posts on the subject, or buy the book on Amazon – free on KU!
One of my upcoming novels is set at a Horse Sanctuary and it will be a challenge since I’ve never spent much time around horses. This will be a good resource, Nicholas! Than you.
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Yay! Thanks for letting me know 🙂
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Reblogged this on Don Massenzio's Blog and commented:
Here is another extract from Nicholas Rossis’ book, Emotional Beats. This one is on the topic of horses.
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Reblogged this on Kim's Author Support Blog.
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Good to see some useful material regarding writing about horses, though I’m scratching my head a little about how to stroke my horse’s head before dismounting – you need long arms to do that…
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Lol – good point. I may have to change that to scratching the horse’s neck, to make clear what it’s referring to 🙂
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That’s what I would do – and I should know, I ride 3 horses a day – used to be 6 or 7, but I’m no longer riding professionally, so mostly my own.
I’d just scratch the neck or withers.
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Wow!! I know whom to ask next time I have a horse-related question 🙂
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Always happy to answer.
I have trad published non-fiction books on horse training and competing, and I started a blog on horse knowledge for writers with a view to turning it into a resource book, but gave up on it when it became apparent there was a wide difference in so many aspects between the US and Europe, in terminology and technical aspects of sport. (I’m in the UK)
On the other hand, a horse is still a horse, wherever it lives, so I can certainly answer many basic questions without issue.
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Super! Thank you for sharing your expertise 🙂
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