TANIA MILLEN ................ WRITER. RIDER. ADVENTURER.
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How to stump Google

3/23/2016

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​Have you ever wondered what isn’t on the internet? And if something isn’t available on the internet, does it mean the subject doesn’t exist? That nobody else thinks about it? And (this sounds ridiculous) but if something isn’t ‘google-able’, where, oh where, does one find out about it? 
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When I stumped Google, I started thinking about these things. Here’s how it went.


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Cover girl musings

3/18/2016

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If your picture is ‘on the cover of the Rolling Stones’ (or Canadian Horse Journal magazine), does that make you a ‘cover girl’?

According to that great knowledge-enhancer Wikipedia, a cover girl is ‘a woman whose picture is on the cover of a magazine’. However, this definition appears to have some caveats.


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Go Horse Camping sneak peak

2/24/2016

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Whoot, whoot! Go Horse Camping is on it's way!

Here's some text from the first and second chapters. Let me know what you think :)


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10,000 Hours with Horses?

2/9/2016

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​According to research summarized in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, it takes about 10,000 hours of practice to master a skill. How does this apply to horsemanship, and horse riding generally?

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Fun comes in threes

1/20/2016

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Woohoo -  a third book is underway!

Julia Nieckarz and I have been going horse camping together for two years, with another 30 years of horse camping experience prior to that. The result is a fun and informative book for all horse travelers:


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Go Horse Camping: A (funny) Illustrated Guide to Camping With Your Horse.

As traditional publishing tends to take a bit longer than self-publishing, and we'd like to get the book out ASAP, we'll be launching a Kickstarter campaign in March 2016 to fund the project.
Please join us!

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7 books to author-ship success?

1/6/2016

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Have you ever met an author and thought, ‘Wow, they’ve written a book! They must be well off’?
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Well, unfortunately, ‘author’ and ‘well off’ are rarely found in the same sentence. There are many authors of really good books, who are just regular people like you (and I) that just happen to have written a book. And hence are an author. Most aren’t a booming financial success.

The book that started it all: Rockin' Whitewater


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Ready (not really), set .... launch!

12/26/2015

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Well nothing like jumping right in. A long ago horse friend called and asked for help funding a dream. Since I believe in helping dreams come true, I said sure, I can help. Let's crowd-fund!

Here's the campaign: Send Joni Lynn Peters to Rio 2016
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From Indian to edible

12/7/2015

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There's a superstition that if you change a horse's name, the horse won't work out. I hope it's wrong. Here are some names that I've changed.

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Going viral

11/19/2015

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I've often wondered what makes videos or ideas go viral online. Some things seem so mundane, or just downright silly. Others are entertaining, but do millions of people really think so?

It's tough to comprehend, so I did a bit of reading. Contagious: Why Things Catch On was my help mate. Here are Jonah Berger's takeaways.

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Crowd-funding

11/3/2015

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I love crowd-funding. What a grand idea. Put your innovation, practical solution, pie-in-the-sky idea 'out there' for the world to judge and... see whether enough regular people will give you (yes, GIVE YOU), their hard-earned cash in support of your idea. Awesome. Of course, they do get something in return. Still. Awesome.

Check out Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or GoFundMe to learn more  - and support some really great ideas!
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  • Writer
    • Books >
      • Pack em Up, Ride em Out
      • Go Horse Camping
      • The Joys of Horse Packing
      • Rockin' Whitewater
    • Journalism
  • Work With Me
    • Funding Dreams
  • Media & Awards
  • Rider
    • 2018 -2020 Trips >
      • 2020 Badger Pass 4
      • 2020 Palliser Pass
      • 2020 Mt Assiniboine 2
      • 2020 Morocco
      • 2019 Muskwa-Kechika
      • 2019 Telegraph Trail
      • 2018 Trips
    • 2016 - 2017 Trips >
      • 2017 Trans Canada Trail
      • 2017 Waterton 2
      • 2017 Writing-on-Stone
      • 2016 Crossing the Rockies
      • 2016 Brazeau 3
      • 2016 Badger Pass 3
      • 2016 Waterton 1
    • 2013 - 2015 Trips >
      • 2015 Barkerville
      • 2015 Badger Pass 2
      • 2014 Spatsizi 3
      • 2013 Cypress Hills & Grasslands
      • 2013 Kakwa
      • 2013 Spatsizi 2
    • 2010 - 2012 Trips >
      • 2012 Brazeau 1
      • 2012 Best of Banff
      • 2012 Pobokton Brazeau Nigel
      • 2012 Spatsizi 1
      • 2011 Willmore
      • 2011 Twintree Lake
      • 2011 Jasper & Willmore Solo
      • 2011 Mt Assiniboine
      • 2010 Jasper & Mt Robson
  • Connect