Pen's Nest

I still haven't read your story, mostly because I took a look at the original story and balked at the pairing. I think I'll have to skip my usual rutine this time and read the remix first and if I feel like it read the original afterwards. And yes, I did remember our conversation! It was actually the first thing I thought when the remix went live, "I wonder if Pen managed to find a story that she could rewrite from the bodyguards pov?" :-)

As a non-writer I can understand the low feedback to some degree, not that the remix is only of interest to the participants but more that it's mostly of interest to other writers. I think you have to be fairly interested in the writing process itself to want to see what another writer makes of someone's story.

This is the first year I've had much interest in it myself and I think it's because I now know several writers better and have heard them talk about their stories and the writing process. It's made me more interested in the different ways a story can be told and more aware of the different things you can do with a given premise, things I didn't really think much about before. Before I always looked at the original stories and if they were stories I liked, or had pairings I liked, I read the remix, but there's always been a minority of remix stories that fill these criteria. It seems to me that, for some reason, it's the weirder, edgier, and angstier stuff that often get remixed and those kind of stories probably have a more limited audience from the beginning. I think. Perhaps.