So there, ta-dah!
Actually, I’m not that excited about it; basically the story got a little too big to handle too quickly, and like the last time, I ended up dispensing with a lot of plot offstage, this time in some flashbacks and an extended epilogue. And the original beginning I had planned became the end. For now.
I thought it started well, and it’s certainly salvageable. Just…yeah, it's over and done with. I can move on to other projects for a month or two, without the word count guilt.
In celebration, I ate a bunch of curly fries and opened up a couple packages, including my fancy new Prancer:
Nifty! I do find the black reins are a little distracting, the mock overspray a bit silly and overdone, and most Fury/Prancers didn’t come with painted eyewhites (only some of the Black Beauties did).
But unlike the upcoming Retro Release on the Western Pony, this one kinda-sorta looks like something that could have been made back then. Sort of like what a Connoisseur would have looked like if the program existed fifty years ago.
(A Connoisseur Racehorse does make me giggle. I’d probably buy it, too.)
Looking at the snap saddle makes me wish (again) Reeves would institute a spare parts program as a perk of the Collector’s Club or Vintage Club. I think a lot of people would appreciate being able to get replacement hats for their Old Timers, and replacement saddles for their Western Horses/Ponies/Prancers. (And the hats would make excellent keychains. Just saying!)
That’s all you’re getting today: my brain is still totally fried from yesterday’s massive write-a-thon.
I think I’ll go make cookies; I’m thinking something in the shortbread family, but I have a gluten-free chocolate walnut meringue-type thingie that I’ve been itching to try. (Not because I have to, but because I want to. They sound absolutely decadent. I could use a little decadence right now.)
1 comment:
YES to the spare parts program! I have several Old Timers that are hatless, and a nifty black Western Horse (the gold hooved version) without a saddle. Breyer would get so much money just from allowing people the opportunity to replace the parts like that (and really, in the case of most of them, they could even offer the original colors and such without much hassle).
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