Re: [AlpacaTalk] Another writer question
My husband is a screenwriter-
LA with the award for Best New Writer. While he was there, a week-long
event, he met a ton of people and he was amazed at how many of them were SO
fascinated with alpacas, and our lifestyle. Maybe it's just because it's so
very different from the Hollywood thing...
He's never written anything incorporating alpacas--it'
he thinks there would be a market.
Pamela Hunter
Weston CO
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:31 AM, <CapeCodCat@aol.
> Ok it's me .. the writer.
>
> Remember, if the question seems stupid, it's because it probably is.
>
> I have cats. Not alpacas, except in my story, and I'm trying to portray
> alpacas and alpaca owners in a good light, and as natural and realistic as
> possible within the confines of the story.
>
> In the beginning of the story, her husband gets some alpacas thinking they
> are easy money. Mary initially struggles with these 'things' that she has
> to
> feed and muck and chase around the field and she doesn't like these
> "things"
> that he bought before he died in a car crash.
>
> Then..... she falls in love.. with them. Those adorable alpacas.
>
> Ok.. now she's ready to turn professional. It is love, but she also wants
> to breed them, and create great wool, through breeding and nutrition.
>
> What does she she need to learn?
>
> Do you have breeding like cats and dogs? (in other words, do you pay the
> sire a fee?) Do you have to keep the sire in a separate field from the
> "girls"? Do you have frozen semen like dairy cow farms?
> All those creas, do you have a nursery pasture.
>
> Birthing. Do the creas come head first?
>
> Ok. that shaving stuff. When do you do it? And what do you need to watch
> out for?
>
> Do you have computer programs for deciding breeding?
>
> Are there color issues? (I know in some cats, two colors mixed get an
> entirely different offspring color)
>
> Any suggestions would be great!
>
> I know I horrified one reader when I tried to feed the alpacas in my story,
>
> in a minimal way. (I asked if someone who is depressed, could just feed
> them once a day.) She was ready to drive down and have an alpaca
> intervention
> and take my alpacas away. I explained I could "fix" my alpaca owner with a
> few key strokes. So again if I've said something horrifying, remember I'm
> not torturing any alpacas except in my imagination and lack of experience.
> I'm asking questions so in the final version, she transforms into a
> responsibly loving and in love with her alpacas farmer.
>
>
>
>
> Best to you,
> Marie (http://postcardsfro
>
> ,
>
> ************
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