What's hivey -- the idea of rewriting someone else's story, or the idea of someone rewriting you, or both?

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?

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.

I am Dana. "No! Every word is sacred, it was dictated to me by the Universe Itself from the Scroll of Cosmic Understanding!"

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.

Still, it's daunting, I must say.

I'd love someone to rewrite a story of mine.

I'd be way too embarassed to touch someone else's.

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.

Oh, well, my understanding of the Universe's intentions might not have been clear and might need a rewrite, but hte idea is mine! Mine, you hear me! Not sharing!

Yes, I'm possessive of my toys.

As far as I'm concerned, it's just another extension of the fanfic idea. You're already writing in someone else's world; why not work with yet another person's idea of the world? Simple.

Scary, but simple.