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 :)