Friendly Frog, our new exterminator told us yesterday that it's mouse season. They are looking for warmth and food, so they go into houses.
We had signed up with a very adorable local pest company over the summer with our original mouse, and the company did fine, but I was calling them every few weeks. They'd send out the same guy (we got to be buddies) who would tell me my house was sealed up tight and he really couldn't see any openings where the mice were getting in, but here they were. And, Dragonlet the Younger - who is just 4 1/2 - found a dead mouse in our basement over Thanksgiving and showed my mom. Wonderful. Over the weekend our little mousey was getting so bold it was just sitting in our dining room, watching us in the living room. So I finally called one of the Big Fancy National Companies on Monday. They sent someone yesterday, who said he found *several* areas where mice could be getting in. He did what he could and is coming back next week to follow-up. Hopefully we are in the end game for mice getting inside, because my husband, who is scared of mice like a 1950s cartoon housewife, is about ready to burn the house down and I just don't have the wherewithal to move again.
As someone who's tried tons of mediums (comics, TV, films, novels, lyrics) you should totally do it. It's such a good way to flex your creativity in a new context. You have whole new challenges, advantages, formats. It's a good way to mix things up and grow as a writer. Also, pretty fun. Use a formatting software, though. Formatting by hand is awful. Trust me. There are some free ones you can try, like Celtx. It's pretty much the standard beginner software, and works pretty well. It does sometimes have weird bugs (nothing that'll mess up your computer, or make you lose your work, that I've heard of. I, for example, just had my page counter permanently break. It would think 1 page was actually 5 tiny pages and there was no way to fix it), though, which is why people usually switch to pay formatters after a while. But it's good to experiment with.
I have Scrivener, which has a screenplay template. It says it exports to Final Draft, which I had about a bajillionty years and several computers ago, but we'll see if I finish anything to the point where I think it needs exporting. Thanks for the encouragement!
*leaves tea and notes of glitter for all those plagued by sniffles and work and snow*
Don't ask where I got the glitter
I f***ing detest glitter with the fury of a thousand dying suns. It's like the sand of crafting. I thought that, even though we are a progressive, forward-thinking family, that I dodged the glitter bullet by having only sons, but I forgot about school projects. F***ing glitter.
Sorry, Tiddly. I know you were trying to do something nice and I just pooped all over it. *hangs head*
GD, I did follow you on Twitter and Tweeted how much I liked your book, with an amazon link. Maybe someone will bite? Today's just the first day, maybe it's a slow burn...
I finally went to my chiropractor today, who was like morphine for my back. My neck is still a little stiff but 90% of my pain is gone and that's what matters. He wants me to stretch and use ice for a few days to drain the lactic acid and let fresh blood flow into the muscles, and then I go back on Monday to finish up. No idea how I did this, but he said it was definitely a severe muscle injury as opposed to my usual nerve pinches or joint pops, which is why it was so alarming and extra painful for me. Good times.
Instead of writing today, because I have a pain hangover and barely slept last night, I watched the latest ep of Sherlock. Not saying that Benedict Cumberbatch has magical healing powers, but I did feel a lot better by the end of the episode.