You can see the freeze brand on his neck, indicating that he is a mustang. He was rounded up in 1995 as a six-month 0ld. He has been trained in dressage, jumping, and cross country. He does love to jump, that’s for sure. Even over crossrails he was pretty bold and super. I rode him in my lesson this week. He hadn’t been ridden since before Christmas, and so he was pretty hot — when Read more…
Welcome to 2010! It feels so weird to write that. This is a rather science fictional year, of course, due to Arthur C. Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey 2. I noticed one mundane effect of living in the future: I rarely write paper checks anymore, living in a world of electronic cash, so I have not misdated a check (yet). Usually I write the previous year for at least the month of January. It’s the little things, Read more…
In my new favorite book on writing, Misery, King has his protagonist Paul Sheldon wake up out of a pain-riddled stupor screaming for a pencil. When Annie Wilkes comes running in, he scribbles down the plot point that is essential to making the new Misery Chastain book the best he has ever written, and he falls back, exhausted. There’s so much going on in this scene. At this point in the book, Annie is Sheldon’s Read more…