Things Fantasy Characters Need to Stop Doing With Horses

This mule has an opinion about your writing. Photo by author.

Somebody said to me there are two things writers need to get right every time: Guns and horses.

Most of the horse errors I see are just things which make me roll my eyes. A “gelding” is a castrated male horse, not a breed or type of horse. Mules exist (Punch there has an opinion on you forgetting he exists),