Another new one from big sky country!

Hi from the wide open spaces!
I have juuuuuuust finished the first draft of my first novel.

Phew!

75,420 words (yay!) but...here comes the rewrite and editing!

Good times!

I write fiction mostly.I hadn't planned on writing this one but I found myself thinking about it. So I just decided to write and see how far I got! Mostly I just wrote what I wanted to read.

I'm a horse girl, music fanatic, cat and dog magnet, like hunting, hiking, dancing, terrible at fishing (little patience, make too much noise) and seriously suck at house cleaning. My MC does too!!

I got sort of interested in the headaches and the problems of the characters. It can be hard! Who knew?? I wrote myself in to several corners. The ending seemed like a mirage. But truly, there is nothing like finally getting to The End.

So, very interesting community. Really enjoying reading all the different threads!

Hey snowstorm! Those Wyoming mountains are some of my most favorite places (alaska basin in the tetons, anywhere around dubois). I almost took a job in Sheridan just for the big horns. Gillette? Kaycee? Casper? Not so much (but great places to dance to swinging country bands!)

Thanks so much! Montana is fantastic but it's not completely all gone now! Bummer that we finally had to have speed limits. Our state speed limit used to be "reasonable and prudent". But there is still fabulous fishing and hunting to be found (nope, not telling exactly where but there's some mighty great country!!) And yes, if you are even on the plains of eastern MT, you'll see why it's called "big sky"...endless sky and plains.

I'm up outside Glacier park (not plains, big snowy mountains), pretty damn stunning! Pretty close to the Blackfeet rez as well, also gorgeous!


I actually was a Colorado horse girl too - went to CSU for grad school (go Rams!) and had my boys with me. Fabulous horse country down there!!

I'm "revisioning"! I got some great tips on this so am hanging with it. do plenty of writing for work but not fiction (I hope; I'm a psychologist so I HOPE it's not!!) It probably would have been better if i'd actually followed any rules or taken a class or read a book about writing or something. I just wrote the story!

But now?

Ugh.

I am putting quite a dent in my box of graham crackers!

Ha! love the tag line, reziac! And Browning..Heartbutte, amazing places for sure. Love Museum of the Plains Indian too! My husband is Blackfeet, and that museum is loaded with his family stuff!

Something for everyone indeed. Actually my preference is near Livingston, big wide spaces (not as wide as Clyde Park which might as well be the moon). But a lot of very rich folks think the same, can't blame them, it's pretty country, so unless I hit the lottery, I'll probably stay in the Flathead!

Is your cabin near Izaak Walton Inn? Husband was raised around Essex as dad did a lot of RR stuff.

I liked the 5$ wasting fuel ticket or whatever it was when 55mpg was enforced.

Yes, the museum did burn, and unfortunately a lot of my husband's family's stuff burned with it. But they still have a ton of very interesting things, a very, very well done museum (as opposed to the Smithsonian, but that is another story - among other things my husband was told he was "represented by the Sioux")


I know some people looking to sell a ranch in Three Forks...maybe throw in a few horses too!!! They are very eager to sell! you might get a screaming deal- actually it's in Trident but very close.


Fabulous country (as long as one is fine with Carhart fashion designs; if the feedstore doesn' sell it, we don't need it!)

Hi Tom and thanks! I'm trying to keep the word "fun" in mind!

and yes! Montana Horses has had the ranch up for a while. Fantastic people, probably is muddy/dusty (but...commuting distance to Sacajawea Inn in Three Forks!)

Murdoch's! Yep! We lost our "high end" clothing store, Western Warehouse, so now we have what ever Murdoch's offers AND we can get that new weed whacker twine AND several bags of feed at the same time, so it's all good!

That's where I get traction sand also, for the back of my pickup, which of course I forgot to take out one year. So, as the days wear on , the bags open, and the dirt falls out, and gets rained on, and grass starts to grow, and pretty soon I'm driving around with my own little garden. The Murdoch guys were great! They kept wanting to sell me seeds to see what else I could grow back there...