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]

*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