Request

[clocketpatch]

So, I've been notice these remix things on the teaspoon. Actually, I noticed them last year (actually, it was the year before that), and I went on a massive internet search to try to find where people gather to divy these things up, becauase I think it's a very interesting idea.

Long story short; I only managed to find last year's remix community, and so I figured it wasn't on. So I stopped looking. Then all of these remixes popped up on the 'spoon again.

So yes, request, next year, when these this thing is being organized, can someone please point me in the right direction for sign-ups? Because this will be my third time missing the boat, and I really am quite intrigued.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

[antennapedia.livejournal.com]

Remix is my favorite ficathon ever. You should totally do it next year. The comm to watch is remixers_lounge, which will see its next activity when the mods announce next year's signups. I always post something about it when it's starting.

Here are stories from some past remixes:
2009: remixredux09
2008: remixredux08
2007: remix_redux
Remix IV

[clocketpatch]

ah, thank you. I've put remixers_lounge onto my flist, so hopefully next year I'll be able to catch the event before it closes.

[abbyromana.livejournal.com]

What is this remix thing? I have to admit I've never heard of it or noticed it. Care to explain further? Is it simiilar to a RF or a round-robin? Or something new?

[clocketpatch]

Far as I can tell, the idea is that you sign up and are then randomly given an author. You then have to rewrite a story by that author, putting a different spin on it by changing the theme, the perspective, the execution (making it into a poem for example, or dividing its time line and rewriting it backwords)

But you have to keep the general story arc and the ideas that cement it.

Anyways, there's simply scads of them up on the Teaspoon at the moment. You can tell because they're the ones with (the blankity, blanky remix) positioned next to the title in brackets.

It looks like great fun, and having missed it again, I feel rather left out.

[abbyromana.livejournal.com]

Interesting idea. From how you described it, it seems quite a challenging activity.

When you say author, you mean someone online... not a professional published author, right?

[clocketpatch]

Well, it is a fic-a-thon for fix remixing, so online authors, yeah. I think the most interesting bit is that you don't know who's story you're going to have to rewrite; you don't get to choose. It's all random.

[abbyromana.livejournal.com]

That does sound fun, now that you put it that way. If you hear about whent he next opening for signing up is, will you please drop me a line about it. I might join as well, depending on my schedule at that time.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Remix thing? I've been out of the loop fic-wise...

[clocketpatch]

I just wrote out an explanation for AbbyRomana above. Don't worry. I'm always out of the loop on these events, and then, on the rare occasions when I d manage to get into the loop, life always ends up attacking and forcing me to bow out.

[(Anonymous)]

Real life can be a bitch. :(

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Ack, that was me. Do the authors volunteer their fics to be rewritten? Think I might take offense, if someone did without asking me.

[clocketpatch]

Yes, you have to sign up and volunteer your fics, and like I said, I'm pretty sure you can designate fics that people aren't allowed to rewrite. It would be pretty sketchy otherwise; people rewriting fics without telling the original author first? Yikes! I'd be a bit peeved too.

[stellastars]

There is also a who_remix comm for, as the name suggests, only Who remixed fic. I've not participated, so I'm afraid I can't give you any details regarding signing up. I think it was the first time it ran, but it might be back next year! (And there're plenty of goodies to read there in the meantime!)

[clocketpatch]

Ah, there's another one to add to my watch list then. I just keep seeing these things popping up on the spoon and they look like such FUN.

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

Hello, I've gone and added you, if you don't mind. I'm Maggadin over at DbyA.

[clocketpatch]

Don't mind at all. Actually, I'm always reading your responses over on JJ's journal and had half thought you were on my friend's list already. ;)