Comments on: INTERACTIVE VIEW: Alison Hart

By: my horse and me

my horse and me — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:04:45 +0000

Sorry I missed out on all the fun. But thanks for taking the time for us girls. Happy horseing.

By: Violet Inkpen

Violet Inkpen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:39:18 +0000

Once more I want to thank you. Since this is your last day I just wanted to send you off with a big Girlshorseclub shout out ‘MAY THE HORSES BE WITH YOU!’

By: mustang23

mustang23 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:27:04 +0000

I had so much fun and I learned sooo much while you were here, Alison! Thanks again for the links and the tips! I’ll most def put them to use! Thanks again, and hasta luega! (See you later)

mustang23

By: Jonannah

Jonannah — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:24:07 +0000

Yay!! :-) Now I have three final questions.

Did you have a fun week with us at GHC?

Are you working on any new books?

And have you ever worked with horses on a second chance farm, like in “Shadow horse” ?

Thank you again for doing this. I can probably speak for all the girls in saying we really had fun having you join our barn :-)

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:17:44 +0000

Jonannah is the winner!

By: DianaLUV

DianaLUV — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:00:48 +0000

Yay! Thanks Alison. I haven’t really talked to you, but I’ll miss you on Sat.
Maybe I’ll be on tomorrow…

By: Jonannah

Jonannah — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:12:05 +0000

Ooh ooh!!! I found the mistake in your response to Husky+horsegirl. Is it you’re instead of your???
:-)

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:41:51 +0000

Thank you all for great questions and comments and lots of horse love!

I’ll check in for the last time on Friday afternoon. All serious writers can e-mail me with serious questions. I love to encourage budding authors. See my site for my contact infor. Ciao!

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:39:27 +0000

Horsefeathers–glad you got those stalls clean! I have not been to the KD, but I have toured the racetrack and racing museum. No one terrible embarrassing moment–since I am a teacher, I have had to get used to many embarrassing moments! And last answer–yes, I have been to many countries in Europe. I did the whole backpacking and sleeping in hostels thing when I was younger. I must say, I am partial to the good ol’ USA.

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:34:17 +0000

Hi Julia, thanks for joining in. A sarcastic tone works great depending on whose voice you are writing in. It certainly worked for Gossip Girls, which is one big snarkfest. However, a good writer needs to practice different ‘voices.’ For example, a snarky tone works in my mystery Return of the Gypsy Witch about Allie a wannabe detective, but it doesn’t work in my Racing to Freedom series about a slave who longs to be a winning jockey.

Try writing about different types of people in different situations: a young blind girl feeling the joy of riding a horse for the first time. You witnessing the birth of a foal. An older person having to put his beloved horse down. Sarcasm would be totally out of place in those scenes.