So, is anyone else here doing the Remix challenge? I'm both intimidated and psyched by it.
I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin.
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Corinna - Jan 29, 2003 11:12:19 am PST #3139 of 10000
Bill, my friend, strange deeds are afoot at the Circle K.
Dana - Jan 29, 2003 11:12:46 am PST #3140 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The mere concept gives me hives, which probably proves that I'm too territorial and insecure.
Corinna - Jan 29, 2003 11:14:22 am PST #3141 of 10000
Bill, my friend, strange deeds are afoot at the Circle K.
What's hivey -- the idea of rewriting someone else's story, or the idea of someone rewriting you, or both?
Dana - Jan 29, 2003 11:19:23 am PST #3142 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I didn't even get to the part about rewriting someone else's. I had a Gollum-like reaction of "MY STORRRRYY! MY PRECIOUSSSS!"
I know some people around here signed up for it. Elena? Kristen? Lizard?
Anne W. - Jan 29, 2003 11:20:33 am PST #3143 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I would like to sign up for it, but a) my main story is unfinished, b) I only have one non-anime story, and c) I simply don't have the time. It sounds fascinating, however. I look forward to reading some of the before/afters.
Connie Neil - Jan 29, 2003 11:20:47 am PST #3144 of 10000
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I am Dana. "No! Every word is sacred, it was dictated to me by the Universe Itself from the Scroll of Cosmic Understanding!"
Corinna - Jan 29, 2003 11:33:54 am PST #3145 of 10000
Bill, my friend, strange deeds are afoot at the Circle K.
Wow, Connie. I don't think I could write at all if I felt that way -- too much pressure for it to be perfect. I look at a lot of my stuff and think, well, the pacing here's for crap, and I shouldn't have shortened that sentence because it blunts the impact of the ending, and geez, nobody got that Lex was mindgaming Clark in the big confrontation scene, wonder how I could've made that clearer and still kept it limited-3rd-person POV. So I'm really interested to see what someone else makes of the same material, since I know they'll screw it up in different ways. And my story will still be there, after all.
Besides, if the person who ends up remixing me is as stylistically different from me as my remixee is, I don't think I'll have to worry about "she did this better than I could!" because what she'll do will be so different from what I would've done.
Corinna - Jan 29, 2003 11:34:39 am PST #3146 of 10000
Bill, my friend, strange deeds are afoot at the Circle K.
Still, it's daunting, I must say.
§ ita § - Jan 29, 2003 11:37:17 am PST #3147 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd love someone to rewrite a story of mine.
I'd be way too embarassed to touch someone else's.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 29, 2003 11:42:19 am PST #3148 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I have me remixee. Four stories, one in a fandom I'm not, and of the other three two are for characters I don't know and one for a pairing I don't like. Fortunately, there is slash.
I'm pysched that someone else is going to read my fic and rewrite the story thier own way. Currently, the doing it for someone else is scaring me.