Pen's Nest

Remix. I know it's self-indulgent, and probably more than ten years overdue, but I noticed a post about Remix meta very recently, and it set me thinking about my own Remix experiences. And Remix in general. And stuff. I don't know whether anyone is interested in talking about the way Remix worked—I don't know if the challenge still happens, I haven't participated for several years—but I'd be interested to hear of outstanding examples of different kinds of story, and of ways of remixing which aren't covered here. I certainly don't claim that I've done every possible type of remix story. In fact, looking at them now, I never managed a really cool re-imagining of any of my remix stories—I see, from this list, that in most cases I've said that I basically rewrote the story with X changed. No grand inspirations, alas!
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I have a lowering feeling that other people are much more thoughtful about what they write and why, and set out with the intention of saying something interesting about the source material. However, I've never managed an approach like that—I mostly find that anything I might Say in one of my stories has arrived there without my conscious input. A few exceptions. Likewise, insights into the original story that may have occurred in one of my remix stories were achieved by luck. I suspect that's true of a lot of participants—we look for a story we can work with, and throw ideas at it until something sticks! But there are thoughtful people out there who aim higher....

A lot of writers don't like Remix and don't participate, and that's fair enough. It's always seemed to me more of a shame that people choose not to read Remix stories, and that, I don't really understand. After all, a fresh story is a fresh story, and unless you remember strongly disliking the original, to me it seems like an opportunity to read two stories. And, ideally, compare and contrast them and see what works and what doesn't, though I admit I might be expecting a lot from people who do this for fun, not for the sake of studying the writing. But in my remixing years, it was always rather sad how little acknowledgment the effort of producing a remix story would get. Even in the days when popslash garnered plenty of feedback. I mean, why is that?


PS I haven't generally included links to the stories, though if anyone is interested enough to investigate all or any, I will happily provide them.

*twitches*

I hate that time between writing a story and posting it. I've just completed my cockbertbigbang story, and I can't post it until… well, I'm not sure when I'll get to post it, but not until after Camp Sparkle. *twitches* It seems to mean I can't get onto the next story—not that I have a 'next story' necessarily lined up in my head, but still. It probably explains my ability to hit deadlines but not to get things done early—get it done early and I just have to wait longer...

Anybody else find that? Do you want the story posted and read by other people, or don't you mind that much?

Back from an excellent, entertaining and useful sparkly weekend chez nopseud, also featuring ephemera. Notions for MTYG were bandied about, and I also discovered Written? Kitten!, a writing incentive site which really works! How useful it would be to have a boyband version available this time next year to give us real encouragement in our SeSa writing efforts!

At dead of night on Friday (ie probably around 3am Saturday), and before ephemera joined us, nopseud and I were trying to figure out how many of the available pairings we had each written. It was surprisingly hard to remember. I have, in consequence, compiled a List, with additions, and have bolded those I've already written. (They don't, I think, *have* to be slash stories, one or two simply feature these particular two as the main characters rather than as a pairing.) I'm doing quite well.

( List of pairings )

I seem to have scattered last year's written output about quite a bit—some of the things I did were in a new fandom, others belong in the Bouquet series, so they aren't chronologically stored on my website. Decided to have a round-up here, to keep things straight.

( I think this is a complete list. )

I've written about a dozen popslash stories.

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