Writing

[hils]

I need to make a start on my clothes swap challenge fic this week. I've got a kernel of an idea so I'm just going to make a start and see what happens.

My remix fic is causing me more problems. I am lucky (in a way) that I have been given a very prolific author to work with but the downside is that I have to read 80+ Smallville fics and pick which one to work on. I still haven't really got my head around what remixing a fic involves. Is it just rewriting using my own words? I know I'm allowed to change stuff but I have no idea what to change.

Has anyone done this before?

Comments

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

I've done the last two years. There are no hard and fast rules, every remix is different - the first year I took a drabble and expanded on it, the second year I took a longer fic and wrote it from the other character's POV. This year I think I am going to take a femslash and rewrite it as Dan/Casey. Probably the best thing to do would be to read a few, original and remix, and see what other people did.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Ok, that sounds like a good idea :)

[ryo-girl.livejournal.com]

That's what I noticed about remix fics - they're all different. I even read one where the author fed in the other character's POV in the spaces between scenes.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm getting a feel for the sorts of things I can do now. I'm going through the fics at the moment and jotting down remix ideas.

[danceswithgary]

On the signup post there are several examples and links to discussions on remixes, too. I took a look at those (and will again) to get an idea of what I'd be doing. I'm re-writing from another character's POV, which will definitely change the slant of the story. :-D

[hils.livejournal.com]

I'm going through the fics at the moment and they're mostly quite short. I'm having ideas missing scenes and things like that. I'll see what happens once I've read them all