Husband and I were looking at new homes in a little Texas town and we started laughing about a house we had before. One day, our cat ran inside the house with a mouse in its mouth! We had 2 other cats and do you know not one of those silly cats would chase the damned thing once it was in my house! It seems obvious, doesn't it that a cat would chase a mouse in a house since they do anyway? But animals and people don't always behave in ways we see from experience or what would be common sense or how we expect. How do we understand human behaviour then? Criminal profiles help. Yup. I said it. They are basic standards of what is expected from particular "signatures" or ways they do specific things. I like to look at people and behaviour too. Doesn't it seem that people would do _________, ____________ and _________ and expect that if they do this they will get the same outcome each time? Yet even if the outcome is the same, they don't seem to get it because they think they are doing something differently or base their expectations on other people. I can't always predict what my husband and son might do, but I can almost always predict how the end of that behaviour will be.
I didn't guess those cats wouldn't chase the mouse, but (after it was caught and released) I knew those same cats would be bitching about the mouse being GONE. I guess that is interesting...figuring out the outcome.
That all said, when I write, I know the outcome but I never know how we will get there. I guess that is like real life, isn't it? I can't figure out what all will happen on the journey, but the outcome is going to be a house with a pool next time (and a place for the herb garden and fish pond). Meanwhile, the mice need to stay hidden from the cats and stay out of my house and away from me.
Did I say the mouse was released? Come on. I'm a horror writer; did you think I released it? Really? Mice coming into my house are just itty bitty snacks....a cat(t) is always ready to pounce.
*evil almost-Halloween chuckle***
I didn't guess those cats wouldn't chase the mouse, but (after it was caught and released) I knew those same cats would be bitching about the mouse being GONE. I guess that is interesting...figuring out the outcome.
That all said, when I write, I know the outcome but I never know how we will get there. I guess that is like real life, isn't it? I can't figure out what all will happen on the journey, but the outcome is going to be a house with a pool next time (and a place for the herb garden and fish pond). Meanwhile, the mice need to stay hidden from the cats and stay out of my house and away from me.
Did I say the mouse was released? Come on. I'm a horror writer; did you think I released it? Really? Mice coming into my house are just itty bitty snacks....a cat(t) is always ready to pounce.
*evil almost-Halloween chuckle***
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