Liner Notes for A Musical Interlude
Liner Notes for A Musical Interlude I’m not a horse person. But I have known horse people; some I was at school with, my lab partner for a year at university; some friends and acquaintances. I’ve been to parties and found myself in a horse conversation (with nothing much to offer). All this to say I don’t know a lot about horses, but I do know some HORSE FACTS. Here’s how to write horses in fiction if you don’t know much about horses. First write it so you get to deploy one of your HORSE FACTS. Next at the point that where you’d have to explain the details of horse care or handling, close the scene or have a groom/stablelad/jockey/coachman etc take control of the horses. In this way you appear to be knowledgeable without getting ahead of your actual knowledge so that horse people will criticise your lack of understanding of horses. You want to avoid that because once people start asking question about if you know anything about horses they start to ask about other element...
