Are you a rider and writer? Do you enjoy stories with horses as the main (mane?) theme? Get your creative juices flowing with this journal of writing prompts for the equestrian. Grab your favorite pen, take a seat and release your ideas, like a horse turned out on a crisp winter morning.

With a variety of prompt styles ranging from photo prompts, persuasive topics, fiction starters and more, horse lovers will hone their creativity and level up their critical thinking skills. Select prompts provide writing samples for extra guidance to unfurl words on the page. From serious to silly, contemplative to cathartic, the writing prompts crafted by Susan Friedland, a 20-year teaching veteran and author of Marguerite, Misty and Me: a Horse Girl's Hunt for the Hidden History of Marguerite Henry and her Chincoteague Pony, Horses Adored and Men Endured and Strands of Hope: How to Grieve the Loss of a Horse are designed to let your imagination gallop.