Nov 13
Editing
Posted: under Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: craft of writing, research, revision, the writing life November 13th, 2010
I’m now well enough to do some serious work on the book–and I thought you’d be amused by one kind of cut/alteration that’s going on now.
This one is about horses. I’m a horse-enthusiast as many of you know, and I inherited my friend K-‘s horse, trained to Grand Prix level in dressage and shown at Prix St. George about a year before she died. I myself had never ridden at that level. But K- was giving me some lessons on him, in the hope that he would connect better with me (not really–or not for the first five years at least.) In the process, I learned to ride some advanced movements that were a lot of fun, and obviously would be of use to someone riding a horse in battle.