craftingmom

Thank you! So glad you liked it. The prompts have been so fun to play with the characters like this.

I agree, they shouldn't be wasted on cleaning... Ysmenia has different ideas about that. hehe.

hehe, he has a plan for those feathers too!

Strangely it was one of those moments that hit me in the middle of the night and I had to get up and jot it down so I didn't forget it.

Hehe, yep, his more adventurous side will cause some issues in the sequel...

Thank you. I think it's important for an owner to bond with their horse and Kayden knows how it feels to need to be loved.

Thank you! The pumpkin one is one of my favorites too! Glad you are enjoying them. And I've started the sequel, I haven't gotten vary far, since I actually did end up working this week, but we'll see!

I think Lance, Finn and Nash (the guard) will be a bigger part of the sequel, so I'm feeling them out a bit. Glad you enjoyed it.

Yes, this one was definitely a little deeper than some of the others.

Okay, so last night, I discovered that my daughter (13yrs, 8th grade) was supposed to have written the rough draft of a story about a painting. And it was due three days ago. Apparently, it had to be between 1500-4000 words, and my daughter was avoiding the assignment because she didn't want to write. Obviously, she doesn't take after me in that respect... (Ask her to read a 300 page book in one night, no problem, but write more than 50 words--like pulling teeth) So after discovering on the online grading system that she had received a 0 for it, which caused her grade to drop, of course, I sat her down to get to it. After an hour, she had 288 words. And it was in one huge paragraph. Again, not my child... It was going to be a long night at this rate. So, I started offering suggestions, like write out the dialog, describing the setting, or hey, write a flashback there. Of course, being a thirteen year old (teen being the operative word) she didn't want to listen to anything mom might suggest....until a half hour later and she was still at only 327 words. I ended up sitting with her, talking through how to write dialogue and how she could use the flashback to the relationship she had implied to add so many more words. Thankfully, about 2 hours later, we had reached just over 1500 words, and I told her to get it emailed off to her teacher. For as much as she reads (and as much opinions as she has to offer her silly parents), you'd think she'd be able to be a little wordy...

Prompt # 256-- Use these words in a story: apple tree, broken fence, horse, phone, doctor It's just a scratch "Kayden," Ellis called as he approached the poultry corral. He could see the black haired neko on the ground reaching through the fence. The neko jumped and turned from where he had his arm through the thin slats of the chickens' pen. There was an edge of a broken fence post that hadn't been fixed yet, and it provided a nice hole that he could reach his thin arm through. H

Oh my! LOL. I'm not even sure what to say, I'm still laughing, almost spit out my hot cocoa...

Yeah, no tree cutting! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!

Thank you! Glad you like them!

Exactly. Kayden will be a little more confident in the sequel as it happens several months (maybe a year) later than the first one, so he is growing, but he'll never forget the past either...

Very true! Hehe.

I remember my daughter feeling that way too! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

Definitely! They'll be riding the sequel so I thought it'd be fun to write how he got started...

Yep, he's going to be riding in the sequel so I thought it might be nice to show how he learned...

thank you!

I'm actually starting the sequel this week--I'm off this week, but I'm wrapping gifts today to get it out of the way. However, with the way I write, you probably won't see the sequel until Jan. I prefer to finish it totally before posting (and my betas hopefully will be able to get it back quickly with the holidays). I tend go back to previous chapters and add stuff as I'm writing. But the good news is that once I start posting, it will be a quick posting--like the previous one and All In--pretty much a chapter a day or so. In the mean time, I've already written several shorts (and may write a couple more) as they keep the characters in my head and are filling in the time between the two stories... So don't worry, I'm not writing the shorts INSTEAD of or as a was of putting off writing the sequel, I'm writing them in conjunction with it!

Yes, I think Finn might figure in a bit like Ellis in the sequel.

I'm thinking of having Finn figure more in the sequel...Glad you enjoyed it.

hehe, it's from a saying that 'Jealousy is the dagger of ignorance' that I read somewhere. Don't worry, no one will get hurt in the shorts... well, not much anyway.