I should have known when I got these earrings.

[mrissa]

Things I like: new story ideas when they have not been so thick on the ground in the last few months.

Things I do not so much like: when those new story ideas use my own family history as a very direct springboard.

I think the only thing for it is to write "Printer's Oak" when it needs to be written and then run it by Mom to make sure there aren't more serial numbers that need filing off for her to be comfortable with me sending it around; on the other hand, when the main character's great-grandparents are printers and a few other things that mine were, I'm not sure how much the serial numbers would come off. It's just that it turns out a lot of things make sense if you figure my great-grandfather was one of the Sidhe, is the thing. I have had this experience of reading history before, but not our history. Mostly the history of the Finns.

Hmm.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

So..... if you show it to her and your mom says it would not be cool to circulate said story, would that imply that your great-grandfather actually *was* one of the Sidhe?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sadly, no, more like "I think that detail about WWI/the printing business/etc. is too close to true and handled in a way that would therefore upset [relative we care about] to have in a piece of fiction."

And to be clear, my parents have never asked for that kind of right of refusal on my stories, or anything even remotely like it, and I don't expect it'll be a problem in this case. It's just that I have lots and lots of short story ideas and not so many relatives. Well. Lots of relatives. Scads of relatives, actually. But the ones who are important to me are fewer and farther between.