Remix - author reveal
Aug. 12th, 2009 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestOkay! Remix authors are revealed! I am pleased to have got three correct guesses - even though there aren't that many stories, it's still awfully hard to figure these things out, so I shall preen for a moment.
I had a feeling![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
withdiamonds wrote the lovely dragons-eye version of my 'If You Want to Fly', The wind beneath my wings remix, not least because in the three previous years when I've done this challenge, the remixer has picked one of my earliest stories. I suspect they look at the vast list of stories (over 100, now!) and recoil in dismay, then start at the top and work through until they find something they can use! But as IYWTF was written in 2007, it's a fair bet that someone choosing that one was already fond of it, which I know Donna is. And it's such a lyrical retelling, a view of themselves as parts of an eternal cycle, instead of Clena's very down-to-earth, day-to-day reactions. Don't tell anyone, but I get a bit wet-eyed reading it. Lovely.
I wonder if anyone guessed that I wrote the passed day will shine Upon my pillow, the remix of Vera's "The Commons of Sleep"? It feels like a not-me story, and actually, quite a lot of it is Keats—the original was inspired by a poem by Robert Graves, which I couldn't find, so I substituted my own favourite poet and stole a bunch of phrases about sleep and hands, including the title. It was a strange process, because I started out thinking I'd make it a sort of vampiric thieving, that all the hands touching JC were stealing something from him while at the same time, he got something (inspiration?) from them. I don't know what happened to that! I ended up 'translating' the story from then to (approximately) now, which was very interesting to do, and trying to keep a 'poetic' feel to it with more intense language than is usual for me.
So. Remix. If you haven't read the stories yet, do! There are some cracking ones in there (plus, it's an opportunity to revisit some jolly good stories you haven't read for a while). And if you frequent![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
still_gay you *have* to read what chalcopyrite did with her internet stalkamix. Don't forget the feedback!
I had a feeling
withdiamonds wrote the lovely dragons-eye version of my 'If You Want to Fly', The wind beneath my wings remix, not least because in the three previous years when I've done this challenge, the remixer has picked one of my earliest stories. I suspect they look at the vast list of stories (over 100, now!) and recoil in dismay, then start at the top and work through until they find something they can use! But as IYWTF was written in 2007, it's a fair bet that someone choosing that one was already fond of it, which I know Donna is. And it's such a lyrical retelling, a view of themselves as parts of an eternal cycle, instead of Clena's very down-to-earth, day-to-day reactions. Don't tell anyone, but I get a bit wet-eyed reading it. Lovely.I wonder if anyone guessed that I wrote the passed day will shine Upon my pillow, the remix of Vera's "The Commons of Sleep"? It feels like a not-me story, and actually, quite a lot of it is Keats—the original was inspired by a poem by Robert Graves, which I couldn't find, so I substituted my own favourite poet and stole a bunch of phrases about sleep and hands, including the title. It was a strange process, because I started out thinking I'd make it a sort of vampiric thieving, that all the hands touching JC were stealing something from him while at the same time, he got something (inspiration?) from them. I don't know what happened to that! I ended up 'translating' the story from then to (approximately) now, which was very interesting to do, and trying to keep a 'poetic' feel to it with more intense language than is usual for me.
So. Remix. If you haven't read the stories yet, do! There are some cracking ones in there (plus, it's an opportunity to revisit some jolly good stories you haven't read for a while). And if you frequent
still_gay you *have* to read what chalcopyrite did with her internet stalkamix. Don't forget the feedback!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2009-08-13 12:40 am (UTC)The story makes me cry, every time, and part of it is your gorgeous language. The idea that the five of them were meant to be, that they came together over and over again over all of time, felt right. Made me feel less sad that they're not together now, if that makes sense.
So, yes, thank you for writing such a beautiful story in the first place, so that I could explore it myself, just a little bit.
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Date: 2009-08-18 08:04 am (UTC)*hugs*.