my sister the poet

[maderr]

I've gotten many a funny look from people when conversing on the phone or just with my sisters (and brother) in general. Usually it's because our conversations tend toward the bizarre, but it's also because our nicknames for each other make very little sense to the outside world.

Online I'm generally amaretto, which means everyone thinks I have a drinking problem XP Sammie goes by rykaine, which (I think) is the name of a planet in a story that could give lessons on angst (if she'd ever frickin write it). Brandie goes by Jolena on LJ, but generally we call her Miss Morbid. This is because I am considered the househould Queen of Fluff, Samantha is Angst Queen (believe it or not) and Brandie needs to stop channeling Stephen King.

I have a point, bear with me. You may have noticed (once or twice *rolls eyes*) that Sammie and I have a penchant for attempting fiction.

Miss Morbid tends toward poetry and sisterly bias aside, it's good stuff (I wish I had her talent; I was told more or less point blank in a college poetry class that I suck - Ang shares this pain with me). Here's the point of my post:

This is standing favorite of the various poems she's written.

And now I go to bed for real.

Comments

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

*grin* You know, the sad thing is that my mother and sister are both shorter than me, and my dad's like... 2, maybe 3cm taller than me? That's about an inch or so, I think. So technically in my family I'm supposed to be tall. :P

Sad that most of my friends seem to be my height or taller though. The angst of short-genes! :P

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

I know my mom hates it simply because she always needs someone else to get things down from high shelves for her. I tend to have issues with that at times, too.

Meanwhile, I'm perfectly sized for my brother to use my head or shouldes as an armrest when he's standing beside me. It's also something of a strain on my neck for me to have to stare up at him or my father.

I'd be annoyed by that last part, but I went and made use of it for Kyle and Erik. So... yeah.

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

*patpat* Well, we can be relatively short together? :P

Oooh, hey, I tend to use my mom as a convenient armrest. (the 'sling my arm around her shoulders and slump over' type) My sister would kill me if I tried though. :P

Yay, making use of real life situations! ^_^

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

Always nice to have someone to commiserate (sp?) with.

heh My brother's got several elbows in his boney ribs for trying that. Not that it ever stops him. Somehow, his skinny ass is still capable of overpowering me.

It's annoying from a personal perspective, from the slashy/romantic perspective it's oddly endearing. I couldn't help it. (That and I've weird... thing, for pairing the short with the tall. *shrug*)

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

Looks right to me. :P My spelling goes a bit wonky at times, so I'm not the best person to ask about spelling.

*patpat* Skinny != no muscles? It's sad, that one. How come BOYS get to have more muscle-mass? >E

XD Yeah, I agree with that one. And you write it so well, too. XD XD XD XD XD

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

I used to be a good speller. Before I went to college and broke my brain.

Yeah, I don't get that one. He should fragile and breakable. Not more than capbable of breaking me. I just can't cut a break where he's concerned. *glowers* Punk.

*beams* Thank you. I'm never really sure how well I'm conveying things. It all makes sense and forms a pretty picture in my head, but on screen, I can never quite get it the same way. It's part of the reason it takes so long for me to convince myself to write it. I'm afraid it won't come out right at all.

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

Ah well. Dictionary.com is such a useful tool. :P I use it a lot these days.

*patpat* (Should I be glad I have no brothers?)

I can empathise with that. :P It's why I write so rarely, and why I have very few finished pieces.

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

I used to have access to the Oxford English Dictionary site, but then I left college, and now I don't. Because it requires money and a password and maybe a portion of my soul. But that's true, there is still dictionary.com. How silly of me to forget that...

My brother's not so bad. A bit of an egomaniac. But I guess he has some claim to that fame, but he's fun to be around, and if you can get him on a roll, he's funny as hell.

All my pieces are finished in my head. It's just finishing them in type that's the challenge.

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

It's the most convenient one. :P And lately, I tend to use Thesaurus.com more too, when I'm writing stuff for school. >_>;;;

Heh, sounds fun. :D Having only one older sister makes it hard to imagine what your family is like.

Ehehe. Not many of my pieces are finished in my head... Maybe two or three trail off into 'happy home life', but some of the others morph and deteriorate into stories that pretty much end as 'everybody dies' and stuff. >_______>;; Which is part of the reason why I try not to read angst too much. It fuels that tendency.

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

I have really only three projects in my head that are not finished. One simply because I haven't yet done the necessary research to formulate much beyond the first part. It's a seriously broken down tale--an arc, I guess is the best qualification. And I just haven't yet had the time or desire to sit and do the research for it.

Another is horrendously long and continually changing in my mind. The basic plot is the same, but then the implementation of it and the characters are constantly shifting and changing. But I think I've just about reached the final "draft" (so to speak).

The other is actually the one Meg refers to in this post. It was the first original I'd ever thought up, though I never wrote a word for it. It's all in my head. I had dreams at one time that it would be my first book.

If I ever I sit down and put the notes to type, I'll send'em your way--if you'd like. They'd make for an entertaining read if nothing else...

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

Interesting... Hmm.

That sounds interesting... But the longer it is, the harder I usually find it to get my butt moving and actually start writing it? :P And the longer it extends, the more reluctant I get to start it. ^^;; Do you get that too?

Sounds funky... And long. XD Of course I'd like. <3 It's only fair that if I get to bombard you guys with random notes and mental images, it's only right that you get to do the same. ^_~ And anyway it's fun.

Oh, that reminds me. Meeeeeeeeeeeeg, SIXPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENCEEEEEEEEEEEE. To be more specific, Met/Sand! *_______________*

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

I think that's why I haven't started to write any of them. I get to intimidated. I mean, a chapter of standard length wouldn't even put a dent in any of them. These are huge pieces that will require a lot of time and effort.

The second one up there has some 40 lead characters in it. And so much transition and shifting perspective and story. It's obnoxious.

heh, I guess I'll have to hop to on making notes then. It'd probalby do me good to transfer them from my head anyhow...

Oh yeah, posted part of Chapter One for Val and Alex. Hope it isn't too bad. *winces*

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

*patpat* Understandable.

I don't stretch up to 40, but I have this tendency to juggle family trees of about three generations? >___>;; It gets a bit crowded in my head sometimes, and the worst part is that as I get a better grip on the character, I lose more plot. =_=;;;;; (I don't have THAT much space in my head)

It'll probably help them bother you less? ^^;;;;;

I saw it and commented. ^_~ I liked it. XD XD XD XD

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

heh A lot of them get thrown in the dirt somewhere, and I find myself focusing only on the same 5 or 6. But all 40 are imperative to the plot (what little of that there is) somehow.

It probably will. I could use the room for other things. (Like more stories.)

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it's possible to have characters THAT detailed and still manage to juggle all 40 at once. I mean, one reason why my generation-spanning stories tend to have fairly regular age gaps is because I generally need time to build the characters in one generation before I go on to the next one.

...Although now that I think about it, I think it's probably possible to have 40 people in one generation. It'd probably be one of those old-fashioned HUGE-sized families though. (My mom has eleven siblings and there's still only, what, 25 of us in this generation? Hm.)

*grin* Hey, be glad you have plot! I rarely have plot in my stories. :P Premise, sometimes, character-stuff, usually yeah, but plot, nope. >P

Hehehehe. *patpat* Good luck with that. ;D

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

It might be giving me (them?) too much credit to say they're "detailed". The juggling I can deal with. It's just keeping track of where overlaps occur, because different ones start the 'journey' at different intervals in the timeline, but then meet up or cross paths that for some might by months after the start and others only weeks.

I do a lot of math in my head, and several recalculations of that math. ugh

But in the end, I love doing it. I'm very weird like that.

heh, thanks. I'll likely need it if I've a prayer of getting through it.

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I tried that once. I SUCKED at it, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much. :P

Well... I s'pose I should admit to a guilty sort of pleasure in structuring family trees? ^^;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

We're all weird. I think it's probably a matter of degree, is all. And anyway, to be weird, "normal" first has to be defined, and while it CAN be defined, at least theoretically, I doubt there's anyone who really fits the bill of "normal". :P So we're THEORETICALLY weird, but maybe in practical terms we're perfectly normal. ^__________^

...Not that I mind being weird. :P It's fun. XD

*waves pompoms for you* YOU CAN DOOOOOOOO IT! XD