chickening out of remixes

There are two remix challenges going on that I know about, who_remix and remixredux09 and I've decided that I'm not signing up for either of them.

Why not? Well, despite the fact that I have now participated in a grand total of two (yes, I know, unbelievable, that's not one but TWO) whole ficathons so far, I am still not that confident in my ability to write to deadline. After all, even when I'm writing to my own prompt it gets excruciatingly slow sometimes (as anyone who's been wondering whether "Turn Again" will ever get a new chapter can attest*).

Also, I have yet to sign up for a ficathon, or a fic challenge, or whatever a remix is categorized as, that involved someone assigning something to me. Both ficathons I participated in allowed me to look over the prompts and claim the one I wanted, which is far less stress-inducing. I get that an assigned prompt is the "challenge" part of a fic challenge, but I feel challenged enough already, okay? ; )

Finally, I think a remix in particular would be difficult for me to do. I find the idea interesting in general, but instead of being constrained to the same characters and plot, I'd rather be allowed to take the premise of a fic and completely re-do it to whatever extent I wish (along the lines of an AU, if that makes any sense). Also, I took a look at my own stories and tried to imagine how they might get remixed, and I think most of them would cause a lot of problems. It's possible that as the author I just can't imagine them being written in any other way, but some of them just seem structurally un-remixable to me, like "Subtext". And as for "Fallacy Somewhere," good luck with that one . . . can't change the POV because it bounces all over the place already anyway, and as for changing the tone, a G&S tragedy just isn't going to work.**


*Yes, it will . . . eventually. I just wish I could tell you when.
**No, "Yeomen of the Guard" is not a G&S tragedy. Nice try, though.

chickening out of remixes

There are two remix challenges going on that I know about, who_remix and remixredux09 and I've decided that I'm not signing up for either of them.

Why not? Well, despite the fact that I have now participated in a grand total of two (yes, I know, unbelievable, that's not one but TWO) whole ficathons so far, I am still not that confident in my ability to write to deadline. After all, even when I'm writing to my own prompt it gets excruciatingly slow sometimes (as anyone who's been wondering whether "Turn Again" will ever get a new chapter can attest*).

Also, I have yet to sign up for a ficathon, or a fic challenge, or whatever a remix is categorized as, that involved someone assigning something to me. Both ficathons I participated in allowed me to look over the prompts and claim the one I wanted, which is far less stress-inducing. I get that an assigned prompt is the "challenge" part of a fic challenge, but I feel challenged enough already, okay? ; )

Finally, I think a remix in particular would be difficult for me to do. I find the idea interesting in general, but instead of being constrained to the same characters and plot, I'd rather be allowed to take the premise of a fic and completely re-do it to whatever extent I wish (along the lines of an AU, if that makes any sense). Also, I took a look at my own stories and tried to imagine how they might get remixed, and I think most of them would cause a lot of problems. It's possible that as the author I just can't imagine them being written in any other way, but some of them just seem structurally un-remixable to me, like "Subtext". And as for "Fallacy Somewhere," good luck with that one . . . can't change the POV because it bounces all over the place already anyway, and as for changing the tone, a G&S tragedy just isn't going to work.**


*Yes, it will . . . eventually. I just wish I could tell you when.
**No, "Yeomen of the Guard" is not a G&S tragedy. Nice try, though.