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'Serenity'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


Connie Neil - Jan 29, 2003 11:20:47 am PST #3144 of 10000
brillig

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.


Connie Neil - Jan 29, 2003 11:42:45 am PST #3149 of 10000
brillig

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.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 29, 2003 11:58:09 am PST #3150 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

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.


P.M. Marc - Jan 29, 2003 12:04:07 pm PST #3151 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

So, is anyone else here doing the Remix challenge? I'm both intimidated and psyched by it.

Yep. And I got my assignment today, and -- whoa.

Trust me to get a BNF (not telling) who writes stuff I really like.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 29, 2003 12:09:03 pm PST #3152 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Trust you. I have read the list of partcipants, and I think I can guess. I'm not sure if I'm sad or relived to get a SNF.


P.M. Marc - Jan 29, 2003 12:11:43 pm PST #3153 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Trust you. I have read the list of partcipants, and I think I can guess. I'm not sure if I'm sad or relived to get a SNF.

Probably not, actually. I got a BNF I never mention, but dig.