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Amy ([personal profile] such_heights) wrote2008-02-18 07:47 pm

Remix '08!

Whee! To join in the squee appearing on the flist, it is that time again, when possibly the mother of all multi-fandom exchanges descends upon us. All hail [livejournal.com profile] remixredux08!

The basic premise of Remix, for those unfamiliar, is fairly simple: take someone else's story, rework it, e.g. by changing the POV or the tone. The way it works gets a little more complicated than that, but there's full instructions and a link to the sign up post here.

You need five 500 word stories to qualify to be remixed in a given fandom, and I'm only one story off in Doctor Who, so I shall probably rattle something off before the deadline (February 23rd). Considering I also have one Torchwood fic in the works, I am contemplating whether it would be very crazy to attempt two more ficlets there as well over the course of the week to qualify. (This raises the question of why on earth I haven't written more in either of these fandoms before, to which I have no good answer.) We shall see!

But yay, because I enjoyed this so much last year, from writing my own submission, (It goes like this (the slowing heartbeat remix), adapted from [livejournal.com profile] glass_icarus), to receiving a reworking of The Shores of the Sea (The Edge of the River (The Hudson Palisades Remix) by [livejournal.com profile] cedarlibrarian), to reading all of the really quite exceptional fic that appeared in the archive. So I am stoked this time around!

[identity profile] topaz-eyes.livejournal.com 2008-02-18 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Three five-hundred word ficlets--seems a lot, but if you do one per day, you'll make it...

*cheers you on*

[identity profile] glass-icarus.livejournal.com 2008-02-18 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
*HUGS* (AGAIN, for the remix :D :D) SO excited!

i'm working on a whole stack of mostly R/S things, as it seems my AU will have to be split into parts. (i may end up emailing some bits of the Orpheus fic to you for a quick look-over... hopefully, eventually, maybe someday soon... ;P) yay for getting back into HP!
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[identity profile] glinda-penguin.livejournal.com 2008-02-18 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Aha! I actually know the remix is happening before the finished stories turn up in casual browsing! I always enjoy reading the remixes and then digging up the originals to see how they've been changed. It's always interesting to see how much and little they change through the process. But this year, I can actually join in! Yes!
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[identity profile] crooked.livejournal.com 2008-02-19 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
ohh i am torn. i've wanted to join in on the Remix fun before but i've always felt that i would just totally fail at it. i'm all 'what if i get an awesome story that is LOVED by fandom, and then i screw it all up omg! D:' so then i lose my nerve and don't sign up. :\

i'm presently going to be going through that same process until sign-ups end, but maybe i won't chicken out this time? lol who knows.
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[identity profile] crooked.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
omg you're tempting me so much! it does sound like such a fun thing... damn. okay, i'll think about it a bit more.

which means prod me at least once more and i'll likely do it? lol I AM SO WEAK, AMY. XP
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[identity profile] crooked.livejournal.com 2008-02-20 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
omg i just signed up. is the anxiety supposed to hit already? :O
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[identity profile] crooked.livejournal.com 2008-02-21 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
yeah i suppose it is scary-in-a-good-way!scary. i will probably be able to, you know, breathe better when i get my assignment.




that, or i'll freak out harder and will have to come embarrass myself in your LJ. heads up? ;)