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remixthedrabble. I was feeling just a little nervous, until a horrible, worst case scenario occurred to me. I can't tell you what it is, it would ruin the anonymity. But I hoped that it would not happen. You know those stories with twisted genies? Where you make a wish, and it comes true, but in an exact, literal way that is somehow just as bad? Well, that's what happened to me. THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT, UNIVERSE!
The only logical thing to do is to email the mods and explain that I have come down with a rare type of lymph node cancer, and I have decided to spend my few remaining years in Guatemala without internet access.
*SOB* I am so doomed. I will be a horrible disappointment and then ritual suicide will be the only answer.
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Er, by the way, I seem to remember a remix meta post about all the different terms typically used in remix fic subtitles (overdub, remix, etc.) and what they mean. Except that I can't find it. Any idea what I'm talking about?
I *think* there might also have been a point where I asked what the hell a "funky remix subtitle" was supposed to be, and how you came up with one, and Rana came to my rescue and explained it. If so, it would have been the first year I participated in the big remix, which makes it 2006. But, what post it would have been, and where I asked the question, I have no idea. The answers may pop into my mind at some point in the next few days, but then again, they may not -- and if they do, it'll probably be right after you've found the relevant post for yourself anyway. Because life is like that. Or it seems to be, just at the moment.
But I wish I could find that other post too. I am both a bear of very little brain and a tragic byproduct of our short attention span society. I need it in simple, six second sound bites!
I knew nothing of these things when I first encountered that post (which, I now realize, must have been after the 2006 remix, but before stories were posted for the 2007 round; and I think it was an older post then). But it did explain the terms a little -- enough so that I was comfortable calling my 2007 story an overdub rather than a remix (because it retold the exact events of the original story, even using some of the same dialogue, but gave it a new plot and meaning), and the 2008 story an extended dance mix, because it extended backward from the original in time and sort of changed the beat.
-- If I go on like this for much longer, I may even remember precisely where it was. I'm now dead sure that you can get to it from one of Victoria's standard 'what's a remix' links; if it isn't linked directly as one of the posts she refers you to in the general introduction/links for remix newbies posts, it's certainly linked from one of those posts. And it strikes me that the original post may not be hers; it may be one of those "interesting Remix thoughts from __" links.
Are the drabbles supposed to have funky remix titles? I didn't think to check when I signed up.
Oh, god. Why did I not compulsively game the system this time, so that I could be sure of winding up with a remixee that I knew? I usually have the brains to do that. What possessed me?
I think that it's encouraged but not required. Of course, I can't remember where I read that. That would be far too helpful.
And I'm glad you have some recollection of the terms post. I was beginning to think that I had hallucinated it.
...I still don't know what I want to call my drabble, but I think that I'm just neurotic that way.
Why did I not compulsively game the system this time, so that I could be sure of winding up with a remixee that I knew?
So, you think it's better to remix someone you know? I can think of deep angst occurring either way. "Oh my god, I don't know this person or their work! I don't have a feel for them! I am doomed!" or similar feelings. But there's also, "I know this person! I must not fail to do justice to their work or else I will disappoint them and look like an idiot!" or some such thing.
But the thing is, the people I know are good writers with interesting minds. With them, I know I'm not going to find myself struggling to find anything I can say. My little corner of the web doesn't have solid-but-bland writers, or out-and-out bad ones, or mpreg, or anything I have real trouble wrapping my brain around in the first instance. Out in the wide world, one encounters all of those scary things. The angst may not actually be any greater than the angst of remixing people one knows, but it's a different flavor, and I'm not at all sure I like it.
Of course, I also have angst as a remixee. What if my remixer only knows Merlin? I hope that they like Gwen/Morgana, as that's the vast majority of what I've written. Or what if my remixer can't get anything from my stories? What if they look my work over and think "There's nothing to explore here." What if I ruin the entire remix!? I will be personally responsible!
It's at this point that I remind myself to take deep cleansing breaths, and tell myself to repeat over and over that I will not break the challenge.
I know, I just said I suffered from angst myself over this. But I know it to be true nevertheless. And really, the only year it ate into my nerves in a truly bad way was the year I was afraid the original writer would feel I was correcting her, and even then it took Brigdh approximately seven seconds with my draft and the original to tell me I was being an idiot and to calm down.
But it is good that you remind me that this is supposed to be my version of the story. I'm worrying so much thinking, "What if this isn't what she intended?" And knowing that the original writer isn't going to curse my name for not my version not being exactly like her vision. (You would think that I didn't understand the point of the challenge at all. Sheesh.)