My fic refuses to write itself

[ratherastory]

So while I'm wrestling with the latest chapter of RiD, can anyone tell me what this whole "Remix" business is that I keep hearing about?

I feel all confused and out of the loop. :)

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[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

It's a challenge where you sign up stating what fandoms you write in (there's a minimum number of fics you can have) and then you get matched with someone who has fics in that fandom. You choose a fic and then do crazy things with it -- write from another POV, explore a small moment that isn't fleshed out, hell, tell it in rhyme if you wanted, I guess. It's an enormous amount of fun.

(And during the Diana Gabaldon wank, her fans were saying, "I bet YOU wouldn't like someone touching your precious stories!" and a lot of fic writers responded, "We sign up for it at remix!"

Fun but very challenging.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Wow. That sounds pretty awesome. Is there a link somewhere?

[embroiderama]

Jumping in, there's a lot of information at remixers_lounge and you can see last year's stuff at remixredux09. Now, that's the main Remix Redux which is multifandom, but there's also spn_remix, which is SPN-specific, kamikazeremix which is multifandom and intense in that you chose the story of yours that will be remixed, meaning you're assigned a specific story TO remix. There are a lot of other remixes in other fandoms, too, I think. I've done a bunch of them, and it's generally a lot of fun. Just turned in my story for remixredux today!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I'll have to keep an eye out for the next challenge. Sounds super fun!

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

Kamikazeremix is fucking funnnn -- it isn't multifandom though, specifically spn :)

[embroiderama]

Ooops, I remembered wrong! And yeah, it can actually be a trainwreck or totally awesome, earning it the kamikaze name. ;)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Iiiinteresting. When does it take place?

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

Usually late summer. I'll be signing up and I'll put out the word then :)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

*fist pump*

Yay!

That gives me plenty of time to write my other stuff. :)

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

Plenty o time indeed :)

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

Here are links to the previous three:

http://community.livejournal.com/remix_redux/

http://remixredux.livejournal.com/

http://community.livejournal.com/remixredux09/

This year it will be on Archiveofourown.org. The stories go up in a couple of weeks, I think, without author names, and then author names appear in a week after that.

[alexseanchai]

Something what I'm thinking I need to go back to square one on, since what I've got so far is trying to turn into an epic that I flatly do not have time to write before the story's due. Trouble is I have only the one idea to remix the fic I'm attempting to remix, and the fic I'm attempting to remix is the only one I've got any ideas for.

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

I didn't know either. I learned something too!