When writing about Texas, always make sure to mention that everything is bigger in Texas. If you happen to include a quote from a Texan that you interviewed only use sentences in which the person greets you with “Howdy partner!” and uses the word y’all. Also, every person in Texas owns a ranch, is a cowboy, and owns lots of guns. If you want to talk about an everyday activity of a native Texan describe your character participating in a rodeo where he rides bulls, ropes cows, and barrel races. If you’d rather describe a more casual and relaxing seen talk about a weathered old rancher sitting on his front porch with a gun by his side. You may want to include an armadillo poking its head out of its hole, a longhorn or a buffalo grazing in the distance, or a tumbleweed the roles slowly by in the gentle wind. Never mention an actual city in Texas. All that exists in your story are small towns and huge sprawling ranches in the middle of no where, isolated from any other civilization. In your story you want to create a wild west kind of atmosphere and mood. Make sure to describe the dusty streets of a nearby town where the sheriff has a drink in the saloon after work. Avoid mentioning cars unless they have longhorn horns on the hood. The only other transportation is by horses which people tie to hitching posts when they go into a store. The only kind of footwear in Texas is cowboy boots and every man you’ll encounter will be wearing a ten gallon cowboy hat. Women won’t be wearing hats like the men. They’ll have large poofy hair instead because everything is big in Texas. Whatever you do make sure that at the end of your story you mention the beautiful sunset and the wide open starry night because every Texan is a cowboy and lives on their own ranch.