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Idiot Writer Guide to Horse Riding
First thing: horses are not bikes or cars. They are large, emotional animals with opinions. If they don’t trust the rider, everything gets harder.
Mounting is awkward. Even experienced riders don’t look graceful every time. Missing the stirrup happens. Especially under stress.
Riding is physical work. Thighs burn, hands cramp, lower back aches. Beginners feel it in minutes, not hours.
Horses spook. Sudden noises, shadows, smells—anything can set them off. A startled horse doesn’t politely wait for instructions.
Speed has limits. You cannot gallop forever. Horses overheat, tire, and need breaks or they risk injury.
Stopping is not instant. Horses need distance to slow down. Pulling hard just makes things worse.
Terrain matters a lot. Mud, rocks, steep hills, ice, forests, crowds—each changes how fast and safely you can ride.
Falling hurts. Even a short fall can knock the wind out, break bones, or leave a rider stunned and slow to get up.
Horses get injured too. Strained legs, thrown shoes, sore backs—an injured horse may refuse to move at all.
Bond beats skill. A calm horse with a trusting rider is safer than a powerful horse with someone it doesn’t know.
Fear travels both ways. If the rider panics, the horse feels it and reacts.
Long rides leave evidence. Chafing, stiffness, sore muscles, raw hands—nobody rides all day and looks fine.
Talking while riding is hard. Breath bounces, voices break, and shouting is common at faster speeds.
If the rider is unconscious or dead, the horse doesn’t magically keep going toward the destination.
Common Horse Writing Mistakes
Idiot Writer Guide to Horse Riding
First thing: horses are not bikes or cars. They are large, emotional animals with opinions. If they don’t trust the rider, everything gets harder.
Mounting is awkward. Even experienced riders don’t look graceful every time. Missing the stirrup happens. Especially under stress.
Riding is physical work. Thighs burn, hands cramp, lower back aches. Beginners feel it in minutes, not hours.
Horses spook. Sudden noises, shadows, smells—anything can set them off. A startled horse doesn’t politely wait for instructions.
Speed has limits. You cannot gallop forever. Horses overheat, tire, and need breaks or they risk injury.
Stopping is not instant. Horses need distance to slow down. Pulling hard just makes things worse.
Terrain matters a lot. Mud, rocks, steep hills, ice, forests, crowds—each changes how fast and safely you can ride.
Falling hurts. Even a short fall can knock the wind out, break bones, or leave a rider stunned and slow to get up.
Horses get injured too. Strained legs, thrown shoes, sore backs—an injured horse may refuse to move at all.
Bond beats skill. A calm horse with a trusting rider is safer than a powerful horse with someone it doesn’t know.
Fear travels both ways. If the rider panics, the horse feels it and reacts.
Long rides leave evidence. Chafing, stiffness, sore muscles, raw hands—nobody rides all day and looks fine.
Talking while riding is hard. Breath bounces, voices break, and shouting is common at faster speeds.
If the rider is unconscious or dead, the horse doesn’t magically keep going toward the destination.
Common Horse Writing Mistakes
I better hope I never transmigrate into Thrones of Ignius bc I would have a Lot to Answer To from Asteria
I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world
writing challenge!
open up your document and put words in it
i understand words and phrases. my dialogue is natural and in character. i know where the plot is going. my word count is reasonable. i am not scared of my document
"who said that" is a powerful spell that casts a defensive bubble around your most vulnerable thoughts
as a writer you will have a specific deck of vocab words you like using a lot and when you read other peoples' work you will see a very clear spread of different vocab words on their end. this is why you need to read, to collect other writers' words like it's a card game
Victor Frankenstein syndrome aka you spent nights over nights crying and bleeding over this work and now that it's finally done you're just like "nvm. it's trash" and go to bed
“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism
i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk
I need either affection or attention or a baseball bat to the temple. Whichever happens first
Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.
They were us.
Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.
Like
Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not
A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it
This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.
As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.
There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.
Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.
We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.
One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.
Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.
One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???
At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.
He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.
And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"
Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.
In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.
Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.
What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.
Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.
The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.
Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.
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Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.
Personally I much prefer when it's not that characters can't see a betrayal coming, but moreso when they make themselves blind to the signs. When they write off discrepancies. When they close their eyes and ears to anything that doesn't fit their image. When it's not only a betrayal of the other but also their own perception
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