Writing Utter Nonsense

On My Mind, Miscellaneous Thoughts

 
More from The Write Start, a 21-day writing prompt program being run by See Jane Write.
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I edit as I write. This is a useful skill if one is producing usable newspaper copy – where I started – or reproducing the substance of an interview – what I do now.

It is a less useful skill when one is writing fiction. It is exceedingly less useful when one is writing fiction and one is bad at it. This isn’t a slam. I’ve probably written 3 fiction pieces in the last 30 years. It would be odd if I wasn’t bad at it. I’ve just started trotting crossrails with my fiction. I don’t expect to jump a grand prix novel the first time the bell rings.

My right brain is easily intimidated by my strident, vocal left brain. OTOH, my left brain wants to hit this fiction thing out of the park. This will require creativity and non-linear thinking.

Apollo and Dionysus have reached a compromise. I can write without criticism on the understanding that the words remain with me. No one gets to read it. Not my beta reader. Not my writing partner. No one. It’s the only way I can get my inner editor to take a break.

We’ll see where this leads.

Last week’s TWS [Schadenfreude Saturday, My Pain Is Your Amusement]

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Looking Back, Milton & Moonlight, Instagram Recap, April 2019

Visual Storytelling

 

Posts through mid-April 2019 from my Instagram account, @myvirtualbrushbox. Previous [Rain, Pool Noodles, and a Monty Python Quote, Instagram February 2019].

Nine Posts
Horses – 4, three Milton, one Parker ASB
Horse-related – 2, Banquet [Lootapalooza] & course walk [Ther Jumps In Them Thar Hills]
Cattens – 2, too big to be kittens; not big enough to be cats [The Rise of the Cattens]
Miscellaneous – 1, moon. I know it’s an exercise in frustration to take pictures of the full moon. It never looks as astounding as it does IRL. I had to try.

Locations
SSF – 2, one each driving & riding
Home – 2, two cattens, two pasture
Almost home – 1, road in front of our house
Traveling – 2, Noccalula Falls AL [Loot], Chattahoochee Hills Eventing GA [Jumps]

Process Notes
Still not sure where Instagram fits in my social media strategy. Not sure I have a social media strategy. Not sure where Instagram fits into the blog. Last time I reposted on Miscellaneous Sunday. Now I’m back to Foto Friday. I do know I will keep reposting. Must. Gather. Horde. Into. One. Pile.

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Looking Down One’s Snoot

View From The Back Seat

 
I intercepted this comment in an email from Milton. He was discussing his preference for the new two-wheel cart rather than the heavier four-wheel.
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I’m a thoroughbred, you stupid fool. I’m designed to move fast, not pull heavy things.

Want to go fast on marathon? That I’ll do. (First posted [Recent Activity])

Want to pull a beer wagon? Not interested. (First posted [Driving & Lessons])

Looking Goofy, Horse Show Outtakes

Jeremy Villar Photography

Milton at from dressage shows at Falcon Hill Farm [Show Report] & Full Circle Horse Park [Show Report]. Jeremy Villar Photography

Villar on Milton at FHF, “Milton’s a funny horse – the first time I caught him with his tongue out it made me smile, but then he kept on doing it and I couldn’t resist. At that point I tried to get him every time he stuck his tongue out.”

Villar on Milton at FCHP, “I couldn’t get Milton to stick out his tongue at Full Circle Saturday the same way he did at Falcon Hill Farm! (I think knew I was trying to get him with his tongue out and wised up.)”

Milton did oblige once at FCHP, the sideshot with the letter K in the background. In the ring!

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Looking Around, Where’s Waldo?

Horsekeeping

 

You may have noticed that the blog has been Milton-centric lately. Nothing nefarious. Rodney is fine. Rodney is out standing in his field. Rodney is taking foreeeeeeeeeeeeeeever to get over the world’s mildest lameness.

Seriously, we once went to look at a sales horse who was more off than this. He was sold shortly thereafter. The seller smugly informed us that the vet passed the horse as sound. Whatever. That’s when we stopped saying what we thought of other people’s horses [Note to Horse Sellers]. That says something about horse trading. That also says something about the minuteness of Rodney’s current boo-boo.

He has a pronounced bump on the outside of his right front fetlock down by the coronet band. He takes the occasional bad step on a small circle on a lunge line at a trot to the right. He is spookier than he should be for the given temperature and activity level. Just enough to put him on the Injured Reserve list.

Rodney takes six weeks to get over anything. It is what it is. Sigh.

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Looking Forward, Aspirational XC

The Amoeba, i.e. lowest, level course from the show last weekend at Full Circle Horse Park [Show Report] . If I were a goal-setting sort of person, this would be our goal for November [This Is Why I Don’t Set Goals sidenote, just under 6 months later, we jumped the stadium course in the photo. Go us! Eventually!].

Yes, the jumps are small, wee even. Remember, the last time I asked Milton to trot around an open field, he had a hissy fit [Two Hops Forward, One Step Back] Height is not the issue.

Previous FCHP cross-country schools. We have walk or trotted over half to three-quarters of these.
[Dynamic Duo Does Dinky Jumps, XC Schooling, Full Circle Horse Park, March 2019]
[Mr. Excitement Regards His Future 2018]
[Outing Report: Full Circle Farm 2017 Fall Schooling Show]

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott