The next project... leaving a legacy

I like staying busy, although life doesn't always let me do what I want.

Book 23 gets better and better. I keep seeing ways to improve it and rewriting bits and pieces already laid down in the first draft. I have around 25K words on it so far, but the foundation has to be fixed for the whole structure to be stable. I was working with an incomplete idea but those have been coming over the last week and making it stronger and stronger so that the rest, which I do have planned, will be even more grand when it's finished.

Aside from that, there's another project I've wanted to complete for many, many years... a reference book about horses for the inexperienced writer/creator or simply novice equestrians. I joined Substack to follow the Based Book Sale and recently posted an intro. Soon after, I thought about making the most of the platform, but it really isn't my cuppa. However, my next post idea was this. The problem is that my thoughts overflowed on describing my history with horses and I've only just begun.

So, when I have spare time or the characters aren't coming together for me to write on Book 23, I'll work on this as a side project. I'll see what comes of it. I may even see about querying a nonfiction publisher, but that's not a priority. I have the outline in place already and just need to fill in the details... a bullet point summary of everything equine for the novice or uninitiated. This will be a way of leaving a legacy of much of the basic knowledge I've accumulated over more than forty years with horses.

And you can thank Buddy for inspiring this. I went to see him Saturday and he was his usual charming self. Here he is doing his weird habit of sucking his tongue:

And a pic of him nibbling me to find the pocket with the treats:

God bless!