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[sevendeadlyfun]

My remix is finished. It came in at a smish over 4100 words, which seems like a lot until you know the size of the story I was remixing. Let us say that it was somewhere between a one-shot and epic word count of doom. I've sent it off to my fabtastic beta. I will be posting it to the remix comm (just) by the deadline of July 12.

HALLE-FREAKING-LUJAH!

As a side note, the rules say I can't post my remix to my journal until July 26. However, I will be posting it here along with some story art I made with the lovely raw material I got from noandwhere as soon as the anonymous posting rules no longer apply. I'm a little nervous, but hopefully the original author and all of you enjoy the story I put together!

Comments

[mithril-56.livejournal.com]

What's a remix, kiddo?

Signed: hopelessly out of the loop and not likely to ever be in it ;>

[anxiety-junkie.livejournal.com]

Whoo-hoo! *bounces*

I'm not going to start working on it tonight, though, because I don't have time. But as soon as I get home from work tomorrow, I will sit down and plow through all those freaking words give it a read, okay? :P

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

Oh, HOOLANLTEBII, you know I love you and your fabulousness. A remix is a ficathon where people take stories and "remix" them, like a DJ does a piece of music. The best example is here (http://community.livejournal.com/remixredux09/profile), but a judicious bit of copypasta for the short version:

What's this all about?
* Ever read a fic and think, wow, what a fascinating story, but if I had written it, I would have... Well, now here's your chance to do just that. Rewrite someone else's story, tell somebody else's tale. Take the work of another person and wrap it up in your vision and style, just like a remixer does to songs.

So just take another person's story and change everything?
* Yes and no. You can do whatever you like to the story - change POV, dialogue, mood, characterization, make it longer or shorter, whatever - except for three things: pairing(s), setting(s) (except in certain circumstances, see below), and the basic plotline.

Does that help?

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

That's fine. I'll be on the road all tomorrow, so I won't get it until late. But it's not due until Sunday, so I have some play anyways.

*huggles*

INORITE? WE MAY NEED SPIKE AND XANDER TO RESCUE US FROM THIS GINORMOUS MOUNTAIN OF WORDS. LUCKILY, I HAVE A KINK BINGO CARD TO START WORKING ON WHEN I GET HOME. I FORESEE RESCUE IN OUR FUTURE.

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

I eagerly await the posting date to see what you come up with.

[mithril-56.livejournal.com]

I rewrote the very end of the epilogue of Book 7 of Harry Potter so that the last words were '...the boy who lived.'

I wrote those few paragraphs in the book itself, at the end, and crossed off the end that I'd changed. But it's just for me, because as long as she was leaving Harry alive, I figured it had to end with those words. BTW, I could have accepted Harry dying - it seemed fitting given the plot, and she'd already set up death to be little more than a way-station, with a lot of friends and family waiting 'beyond the veil' so I was fine with that.

How do you choose the story to be remixed, and is the original author a collaborator or just an approver?

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

You're assigned another author participating in the ficathon, but they don't approve or collaborate. Well, I suppose they do in a way. By signing up for the ficathon, they're agreeing to have their stories be remixed. But I don't have to let them read the story before I post it or anything.

The participants are matched by fandom (i.e, you and your chosen remixer will have at least one fandom in common), but I got to pick the story I wanted to remix. Each author can have one safe story, which means it's not allowed to be remixed. But other than that, it's all fair game.

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon! I'm hoping everyone likes it. It's definitely not my usual type of story, but then again, I started with the bones of another writer's work, so that's why. :)