One Reason I Wrote The Girl Who Ran With Horses
In late 2005, as I was finishing up my first (and still unpublished) novel,
Threads, my niece, Heather, who was thirteen at the time, told me that my next book should be
"about a grl and she is a brl rcr and she iz jus like ME".
Over the next few weeks, Heather and I IM-ed and swapped emails as she told me the names of the characters and horses, and their family members. I even made her draw a blueprint of the family ranch house. ;D Thus armed, I mapped out the story and created a rough outline.
And then did nothing with it. I can be silly that way sometimes.
In my defense, the main reason I didn’t launch right away into Horse Girl...
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-David