Too much to do, too few hours...

[deird_lj]

So, I'm doing the Remix.

I am clearly mad. But also having far too much fun to care...

Comments

[spiralleds.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's fabulous crazy fun.

From Laney

[(Anonymous)]

Ummm... huh?

[deird1]

*is scared*

*is also excited*

[deird1]

A Remix: Noun. Refers to a story which is an adaptation of an earlier story by someone else.
(Sample Usage: "I wrote a remix last year"; "this story is a remix of something I wrote"; - can also be a verb: "I remixed a story")

The Remix: Proper Noun. A yearly event in which participators have one of their stories remixed, and remix someone else's story in return. Can lead to as many as 250 remixed stories being produced. Can also lead to large quantities of stress, hair pulling, complaining to friends about one's inability to produce a coherent story out of this mess, and incoherent sobbing.
(Sample Usage: "I'm doing The Remix this year"; "I decided not to do The Remix this time"; "I can't wait for The Remix!"; "when is The Remix starting?"; "The Remix is driving me crazy, why oh why did I volunteer for this madness")

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

WHY DO YOU TELL ME THESE THINGS? NOW I WANT TO DO IT BUT I DON'T HAVE THE *long period of swearing* TIME!

*huff*

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Jesus Christ, I just signed up. Why are you so gkenawrpejkarnleasssss

See Snowy for what that means. She'll explain all. :D

[deird1]

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated do the Remix.

[deird1]

Snowy has indeed explained all. :D

You two are just oiwuekhlshnnt...

From Laney

[(Anonymous)]

So... let me get this straight - you're going to rewrite each others' stories?
You're submitting a story for other people to try to rewrite better than you?
REALLY?

[deird1]

*sighs*
See, this was why I provided lots of handy links.

Look at this story.
And now look at this story.

Seriously. Go look.

Even the most cursory examination will highlight some distinct differences between the two.



I've seen people remix stories as poems, I've seen the most ridiculously silly 100 words become a 3000 word epic love story, and I've even seen someone kill off the main character before the story starts and still manage to have essentially the same plot (in a REALLY COOL AND AWESOME way).


For example:
-Someone writes a silly oneshot of House and Wilson having a silly, House-and-Wilsonish conversation, while they just happen to be cleaning out House's fridge (everything's got a bit past the use-by-date).
-Someone else remixes the story
...and turns it into a story about House and Wilson's friendship, over the space of five years, all from the perspective of the fridge.

-Someone writes a story with Cuddy looking at a photo of her and House at college, and reminiscing about what was happening at the time.
-Someone else remixes the story
...and turns it into a story set back in college.

-Someone writes a story from Chase's perspective, where he visits Cameron in the ER, and she accidentally spills cough syrup all over his shirt.
-Someone else remixes the story
...from Cameron's perspective, and we suddenly find out that she actually spilled the cough syrup deliberately because she's really annoyed that he hasn't vacuumed their apartment for five weeks now!


...and so on.

[deird1]

Or to put it another way,

Ever After is a remix of Cinderella. And Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a remix of Hamlet.

It's not rewriting a story, exactly. It's reshaping it.

From Laney

[(Anonymous)]

Errrr... sorry, I think you misinterpreted my incredulity as incomprehension.

As in, yeah, with you, got all that. I was just showing due amazement at your boldness in submitting your children to be operated on by strangers. :)