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[pensnest]

Amidst a tumble of dragons and Gilbert and Sullivan, I should probably update.



DWTS. *sigh* I wasn't surprised, particularly since I had a dream this morning of meeting a despondent Joey in a bar and taking him to someone's oddly cubist flat where various LJers (wish I could remember who!) tried to console him until he walked sadly home. I sorta expected Apolo and Julianne to win. But what a shame. And now I have no dancing Joey to look forward to on Tuesday mornings. But I have files which fill me with delight. My favourites were the second Jive (wow!) and the first Foxtrot (magic!), but I love them all. Thank you, daisydust.

ManBand is July, isn't it?

And then there was Remix. As those of you are interested have presumably already discovered, I was assigned Topaz to remix, and wrote World Tour (the Let's Go By Vegas mix), which was a lot of fun (and which, cunningly, got me out of writing the sex scenes, heh). I hope I've thanked those of you who sent me feedback. :-) I know I didn't get to all the stories - still haven't, too busy - but I managed to comment to a few. It's a shame to think that Remix 'traditionally' doesn't get much response in the way of feedback for the authors, and I'm not really sure why that should be, especially these days when we don't have the luxury of quality fresh fic popping up every day. It takes as much effort to produce a good Remix as to produce a first-generation story.

I've seen many interesting and thoughtful posts about how people figured out how to do their remix, and what kind of thing they may have been aiming for... in my case, I'm afraid it's really quite simple. I had My Brilliant Idea (Ooh! I'd love to see a story from the bodyguard's perspective. Hmm... I should write a story from the bodyguard's POV. And five minutes later, Wouldn't that be a cool idea for my remix!!) in the car somewhere on the M25, with turloughishere, and was completely delighted to find that one of my victim's stories would actually work really well this way.

And as it happens, my Beast and I are indulging ourselves with a trip to Disneyworld in October, so I had The Unofficial Guide - and several Disney websites - close at hand. Seldom has research been so easy.

Also, yay for serendipity and a chance to meet!

Anyone else going to be in Disneyworld in the first half of October?

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[pensnest]

I *think* it may well be a challenge that particularly appeals to writers who are interested in the craft of writing - at least, I can't find a better way of putting it than that. We all feel the desire to write down our own story, of course, but not everyone who writes wants a challenge that so particularly addresses the 'how do you write?' question.

Perhaps writers who like this craft challenge have a greater tendency to be writers who will produce sharp-edged work of their own..? Or perhaps, the sharp-edged ones are easier to remix? Hmm. It'd be hard to remix a comic story skilfully and keep it funny - though it can be done.

Note that the only two JuC stories I have written were done for challenges!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Yes, it struck me after I'd written that that there's probably only a particular type of writer that's drawn to remixes, as you said, not all writers. The more self-aware, "intellectual" type perhaps. Which I think is the type of writer that usually produce the edgier and more "difficult" kind of stories. Not that there isn't a broad spectra of remix writers and the kind of stories they write, but I really think that if you looked at popslash as a whole and compared it to the remixes the proportion of that kind of writer and story is much higher in the remixes.