Rochellaine

@rochellaine @seekjustice @catwing

I think I’ll sit out of the wars for the rest of the night. Been pushing myself to crank out the words these past several hours, and I’m feeling not so inspired and motivated now, so I’m gonna leave soon I think. I’ll be on to chat for a bit though. 🙂

@rochellaine another war sounds good. 15 minutes?
I think we’re doing favorites, but saying or last sentences cause they’re funny. XD
This is great. 😀

@seekjustice I think all those terms are a little confusing for some people (including me, tbh 😛 ), and I don’t think all horse books get it right anyway, so maybe that’s why Americans don’t use the terms that often. 🙂

@seekjustice Okay. I double checked and…
They are called a filly or Colt until over three years of age. But at one year they are yearlings, instead of foals apparently.

@jenwriter17

Righto. The things I was reading seemed to indicate it meant more generally a horse that hadn’t reached mature age. Here it very specifically means a horse between 1-4. Younger than 1 is a foal, and a female is a filly. I’ve never really seen any Americans use those terms though, which was why I was a little confused.

@seekjustice I’m an American horse person… And an American cat person… 🙁 ( 😛 )
Foal – Baby horse under one year (I think it’s one year)
Filly – Female foal
Colt – Male foal
But some people are named Colt. 🙂

@catwing I think I like the idea of choosing our favorite sentences better 😉

@seekjustice

We use the word colt for a male horse that hasn’t reached adult age yet.

@jenwriter17 I chose favorite. My last was…
But it was big.
Where is my Newberry Medal? IT will probably be rewritten. XP

@rochellaine @catwing @jenwriter17

And I’m pretty sure I have no interesting sentences, but this one…

This brumby was one of a highly sought after colouring–not quite pure white, but not cream or golden either.

…is a reference to one of my favourite childhood books, The Silver Brumby.

@catwing @rochellaine @seekjustice

oh yeah, my sentence…

I didn’t know if we were doing our favorite sentence or the last sentence we wrote, so i’m just putting here the last sentence I wrote: Vega twisted one of her box braids around her finger. 

I know, gripping isn’t it? 😛

@catwing I like your sentence 🙂

I think I do better at 15 minutes. Also I have kitten crawling all over me…

@rochellaine @jenwriter17

Guess what? I got 269. Without eating pizza.

I’m sort of stuck on the details of capturing brumbies though. Exactly how one does it with a horse and no helicopter.

By the way, Jen. Since you are an American horsie person, what does the word colt mean? You seem to use it in a different way to we do.

@seekjustice Yeah. I think I heard we beat the last record, though I would have to double check.

@jenwriter17 What was your sentence?

@rochellaine I think we could just share one. *shrug*

I got 146.
My sentence… hmmmm…

Her legs felt like iron beams cemented into the ground as the moss and dirt fell off the dragon rising from its…

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@rochellaine @catwing @seekjustice

262!

@rochellaine

My guild did not win the last word war though 🙁

@catwing @jenwriter17

Okay, I’m putting my timer on.

@rochellaine

Well that sounds interesting. Maybe you should take a step back and review your plans for your plot and story.

@jenwriter17

Sorry I’ll have to pass on the word war because I’m not home yet…

@seekjustice oh, yeah the sentence thing sounds fun 🙂

@seekjustice

Oh, really? I was using Scrivener for my last war and my word count was terrible! 🙂

Pizza calls right now, but I’m sure I can eat and type. I need a handicap anyhow.

Oh, really now? @rochellaine I think we’ve been insulted 😛

@catwing

Y’all ready to start your timers? Ten minutes, here we go! 😀

@rochellaine I see.

*ponders* Maybe it would…