i have decided to do a story on a teenage girl that lives on a ranch in Kentucky. I want to make it for ages 12 to 15 or around that area somewhere.
So... of couse i want the story to be about a girl, some teenage drama, horse stuff, and a lil bit of love.
But i don't want it to be like all those other series, like "Phantom Stallion" or "Hearland"
Do you have any ideas for my story...???
2007-03-26 15:31:18 · 7 answers · asked by ? 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
you could do a 16 year old girl( i know that is out of the age range but 16 sounds good..she can drive) she should move to a ranch and have a bunch of chores thrust at her..but at first she is excited to move. she gets a boyfriend and falls in love..then she falls in love with a horse. she goes for rides on it everyday and her boyfriend helps her and stuff..then one day the horse has to be put down, because it got really sick and she cries and cries and cries and tries to help it..her boyfriend tries to help...in the end, the horse dies but she is still so in love with her boyfriend. everyone knows not to buy her another horse, because she would get mad because nothing could ever replace her other horse, but then she finally gives in and decides to give another horse a try. she loves it, but never as much as her other horse. Also the boyfriend is sort of a main character too. and you can make the parents like one agrees with her loving of the horse and one disagrees or something..
i dunno what ull think about that. I kinda just thought of it from the top of my head..u have a good topic. i've never been that interested in horse's so my explination might not be that good..
2007-03-26 15:55:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are basing it in Kentucky, they have horse farms and stables, but no ranches. You will find ranches in the western states like Wyoming, Texas, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, the Dakotas, Oklahoma, and parts of Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Nebraska and northern California.
A working ranch is usually 180 acres or more. The good-sized ranches have 5,000 acres or more. The BIG ranches have more than 100,000 acres.
If you are basing it in Kentucky, I assume the horse will be a show horse or a racehorse or a jumper and will certainly be a purebred. If that's the case, you need to read books like National Velvet, Son of the Black Stallion, Man O'War, and Seabiscuit. These give you an idea of the early training of horses and why one colt shows promise and another doesn't.
"Afraid to Ride" is an excellent story about a girl who rides jumpers. "Ride to Win" is about a girl who does endurance races.
If you want to take your story into the western states and put it on a real ranch, I suggest you read "My Friend Flicka" and "Thunderhead" by Mary O'Hara. "The Golden Stallion" by Rutherford Montgomery is also good.
By the way, horses in the ranch world are more likely to quarter horses than any other breed. A good cow pony might have no breeding, but still be worth every penny put into him if he can cut cows properly.
2007-03-26 23:40:57 · answer #2 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. For people to give you ideas and for you to use them is stealing people's intellectual property. If you have decided to do a story, it should be yours and yours alone. Some teenage drama, horse stuff and a lil bit o love has been done like ten thousand times already. If you dont want it to be like those two other series, then you must have some ideas how you plan on making it stand out as being different.
Write what you know about. And if you dont have ideas for a story, wait until you do. Pax - C.
2007-03-26 22:41:29 · answer #3 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is your story and no-body can really give you ideas because you are the one who is writting it. Just start by getting together all the names you might want to use and just think about what you want to happen in your story when you arn't busy. i find it best to think about it when i am laying in bed trying to get to sleep. Good Luck with the story.
2007-03-27 02:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by Fantasy Dreamer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it have to take place in the present age? What about a slave girl? Stay away from anything that sounds National Velvet-y.
2007-03-26 22:39:24 · answer #5 · answered by dk 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is this a homework assignment or personal writing? Because if you are creating personal writing, wouldn't you want the ideas to be solely your own?
2007-03-26 22:55:00 · answer #6 · answered by §Sally§ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Make the horse blue.
2007-03-26 22:45:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋