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So! It is Saturday, and I have decided what I'm going to do about RemixRedux.

It's complicated. :-)

See, the story I really, truly, desperately want to remix is unfortunately kind of long and very specific in its details. And the story I want to write -- what I want to change, and what I want to keep or echo -- would be more of a backwards, distorted mirror than a rewrite. I am not sure how kosher that is, though my hypothetical story would be absolutely dependent on the original for the fullest sense of what I'm trying to say. (It is all about exploring the original's gaps and roads not taken, in a way.) Also, it would require a LOT of careful world-building, a sure grasp of cultural sensitivity (which I doubt I have), and a ton of research, possibly including a trip to somewhere I cannot get to without a car, and since I have no car...

*makes face*

Therefore, I am putting that story on temporary hold and remixing the second story that pinged me, because that one involves characters and a theme that I could write in my sleep -- which is not to say that I am planning to shortchange the work, just that I think I can have a rough draft done by next Saturday at the latest. And that way, even if I cannot finish the story I am dying to write, I will have something to post.

After that, if I manage to get the first story written as well, it's all gravy. :-D

(Oh, I so want to write that story. It would/will be about the hardest thing I have ever written in my life, but I think it's so very, very worth the effort. *sulks over deadlines*)

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Elizabeth Culmer

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