Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Read About Warhorses

The latest post about horses in fiction covers warhorses.  You might also like to check out the epic puppetry in the play "War Horse."

I was amused by the blogger's observation that a villain who mistreats his horse is likely to be unseated at an inopportune moment.  In fact, back in high school, I wrote a story in which the climactic confrontation was cut short when: the villain spurred his horse, it reared up, he fell off and broke his neck.  The heroes were left staring dumbly at the corpse and wondering what to do with all their adrenaline.
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  • 4 comments
siliconshaman

siliconshaman

October 22 2011, 18:23:19 UTC 9 years ago

*snort* sounds like an amusing story that...
fayanora

fayanora

October 22 2011, 18:31:46 UTC 9 years ago

I love that story with the villain breaking his neck. Poetic justice!
ysabetwordsmith

Thank you!

ysabetwordsmith

October 22 2011, 18:42:07 UTC 9 years ago

Precisely. It was one of those times when I wanted to show the outcome of habitually hostile behavior. That villain died not because the heroes were heroic, but because he consistently mistreated everything and everyone around him, and eventually that caught up with him. It's very rare to see that in fiction or film, but the pattern is quite real.

After the third or fourth time one of my healer characters got taken captive and just stood around waiting for someone to get hurt and scream for a healer, I asked about that. Shareem explained, "People who waylay other people are bound to get hurt, and it usually happens sooner rather than later. There's no point fighting when I all need to do is be patient." Plus that approach usually involves a certain amount of begging and apologizing on the part of the hoodlums.
msminlr

msminlr

October 24 2011, 01:13:04 UTC 9 years ago

I am greatly enjoying the blog posts about horses-as-characters.

I was one of the many who winced massively at the charge-down-the-hillside scene in LOTR.