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[darkluna]

I kind of want to do remixredux08, but I'm scared! What if my remixer hates my stuff? What if I hate hers? It's very easy to say, "La la, I can write in the Death Note fandom," but watch me get someone whose OTP is L/Light. And I can just see my remixer looking at my list of stories and thinking, Aw, CRAP, second half.

ETA: Right! Have girded my loins and signed up. eee.

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[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Which is...kind of the point of the Remix, actually.

I've been in your shoes, most definitely. Out of the three years I've done it, two of the stories I remixed were stories that I had problems with: the first story was based on an original that was a character-bashing piece; the second focused on an OTP I haaaaaaaated (unfortunately, just about everything this person wrote was of that OTP).

Buuuuuuuut, there are ways around it by writing a story you enjoy, even if you didn't like the original. I'll give you my examples:

• This (http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/75860.html) is what I wrote in response to the character-bashing piece (the original story has since been moved off-line).
  
  
• This (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?keyword=Fic%3A+The+Murder+of+Crows+%28BSG%3B+PG-13%29&user=liz_marcs&sortby=des) is what I wrote in response to the story that had the OTP I hated — I basically relegated the original story to a single page, and then focused on something completely different.
  

As for being unhappy with the people who remix you, I hate to say it, but that's the chances you take.

Sometimes you're going to get a piece of crap that was written in less than an hour. (http://remix.illuminatedtext.com/dbfiction.php?fiction_id=219) And sometimes you're going to get a masterpiece that'll be even better than your original (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=nwhepcat&keyword=charles+whitman&filter=all). Most fall into this category (http://community.livejournal.com/remix_redux/64298.html): pretty good, competently executed, and an interesting alternative take that isn't disappointing.

But, like I said: It's a crap shoot. If you wanna play, you've got to except going in that no matter how hard you work, there's a 33% chance that you're going to get a crappy story in return. Then again, there's a 33% chance that you'll get a really fantastic story in return.

[darkluna.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this! It's good to know I'm not entirely neurotic. I'm mostly afraid my remixer will wonder what the heck she's gotten into. The DN character I gravitate to the most for fic purposes gets a lot of hate. :-( And I hate the most popular OTP. But I think it will be a fun challenge, and good for me to do.

And your Faith story looks un-crap-like entirely. :p