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Remix, remix, baby!
Mar. 22nd, 2007 11:48 amI hadn’t even realised how much of a millstone around my neck Return to Sender had been.
Within twenty-four hours of officially giving it up, I have broken through writers block, written a complete second draft of my Remix from scratch with OMG BEST TITLE EVER which I’d jump up and down and tell everyone if it wasn’t so super-secret, and did I mention finished my Remix?
For those who don’t know what Remix is: the basic idea is that you sign up, you get assigned another author (and someone gets assigned you), and you rewrite the concepts or plot from one of their stories, putting a different spin on the whole thing. Since everything stays top secret for a week or two after the stories come out, we all have fun guessing who wrote what from our and other people's ideas. I’m looking forward to playing properly this year, since last year I ended up being Communal Beta Reader for the AF fandom, and I knew who’d written everything before I read it.
This year, however… I don’t know who’s remixing me, and I’m pretty sure the author I’m remixing hasn’t the faintest idea that I’m onto them. Bwahahaha! Bwahaha! HAHAHA!
Honestly, is there anywhere else we get a chance to do all this evil laughing?
I’m sure I would have found a fic to do with any author involved in Remix – I didn’t look around at my “choices” before the assignment because I didn’t want to be disappointed by what I could have done. But I’m so glad I was assigned this author, really: I’ve wanted to do this fic, to explore this fic, to be this fic, since the moment I saw it. And now I can. Have. Will continue to be.
As far as such things go, it was easy to write, and I’m actually feeling a little guilty about how easy it was. Should I go back and add in more narrative, more plot lines, more twists and turns? Or should I just stand back and stare with awe at something that manages to seem perfectly balanced even though I wrote the whole thing at the alarmingly fast speed of one and a half words per minute? (There you go, Mozzie: get yourself a calculator, have a guess at how late I stayed up on this thing, and you’ve got an approximation of the length.)
Now I just have to let it sit for a couple of days and do a little bit of spit-polishing, pass it on to the lovely Eterah, who’s agreed to beta for me, and… voila!
Remix: tick.
Now on to writing Orion’s Toolbelt: Exposition Exposed. Or, you know, catching up on some sleep or something.
Within twenty-four hours of officially giving it up, I have broken through writers block, written a complete second draft of my Remix from scratch with OMG BEST TITLE EVER which I’d jump up and down and tell everyone if it wasn’t so super-secret, and did I mention finished my Remix?
For those who don’t know what Remix is: the basic idea is that you sign up, you get assigned another author (and someone gets assigned you), and you rewrite the concepts or plot from one of their stories, putting a different spin on the whole thing. Since everything stays top secret for a week or two after the stories come out, we all have fun guessing who wrote what from our and other people's ideas. I’m looking forward to playing properly this year, since last year I ended up being Communal Beta Reader for the AF fandom, and I knew who’d written everything before I read it.
This year, however… I don’t know who’s remixing me, and I’m pretty sure the author I’m remixing hasn’t the faintest idea that I’m onto them. Bwahahaha! Bwahaha! HAHAHA!
Honestly, is there anywhere else we get a chance to do all this evil laughing?
I’m sure I would have found a fic to do with any author involved in Remix – I didn’t look around at my “choices” before the assignment because I didn’t want to be disappointed by what I could have done. But I’m so glad I was assigned this author, really: I’ve wanted to do this fic, to explore this fic, to be this fic, since the moment I saw it. And now I can. Have. Will continue to be.
As far as such things go, it was easy to write, and I’m actually feeling a little guilty about how easy it was. Should I go back and add in more narrative, more plot lines, more twists and turns? Or should I just stand back and stare with awe at something that manages to seem perfectly balanced even though I wrote the whole thing at the alarmingly fast speed of one and a half words per minute? (There you go, Mozzie: get yourself a calculator, have a guess at how late I stayed up on this thing, and you’ve got an approximation of the length.)
Now I just have to let it sit for a couple of days and do a little bit of spit-polishing, pass it on to the lovely Eterah, who’s agreed to beta for me, and… voila!
Remix: tick.
Now on to writing Orion’s Toolbelt: Exposition Exposed. Or, you know, catching up on some sleep or something.
