initial Remix Revival thoughts
Jul. 31st, 2018 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I got my Remix Revival assignment, read through my remixee's archive (a small archive, all things considered, which has both benefits and drawbacks), and... hmm...
I don't think my remixee and I have much in common, in terms of our areas of writing interest? That is, even within the fandom we matched on, and even when writing the same characters, we take notably different approaches and have notably different preoccupations. Which of course is part of the point of remix exchanges: stretching oneself as a writer in directions one would never otherwise think to try.
Anyway, I think I've identified my target fic. Now it's just a question of figuring out what to do with it. :)
I don't think my remixee and I have much in common, in terms of our areas of writing interest? That is, even within the fandom we matched on, and even when writing the same characters, we take notably different approaches and have notably different preoccupations. Which of course is part of the point of remix exchanges: stretching oneself as a writer in directions one would never otherwise think to try.
Anyway, I think I've identified my target fic. Now it's just a question of figuring out what to do with it. :)
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Date: 2018-08-01 12:45 am (UTC)Anyway, good to hear you've ID'd the story to remix - and good luck writing it!
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Date: 2018-08-01 03:42 pm (UTC)I am lucky in that I like a broad range of characters in most of my fandoms, and I'm agnostic enough about ships that I can work with most things even if I probably would never write them on my own. But there's still often a period of bewildered bafflement when reading through a remixee's archive and wondering what on earth one is meant to do with stories from such an alien perspective to one's own.