Best Enemies

Late Comers: While the deadline had passed, a late submission is ever so much better than none at all! Take the time you need to finish your story properly, but bear in mind that your person is probably waiting anxiously for your fic. They might appreciate being dropped a short line, to say 'my bad' and keep them in the loop? If you haven't told me you'll be a touch overdue, I'd like to hear from you, so I know you're still playing. We'll arrange something else for people who've remixed and whose remixers have wandered off, perhaps pinch-hitters can fill in. Everyone /will/ get their remix if I have to write it myself. :p On that not, I, sadly, have been distracted by RL and am/will be late, so I know your chagrin, etc. But we'd still love to see these fics, so post them proudly!


Here are the remixes submitted thus far:

One Last Time (the Seven Hundred Years After remix)
Three True Things (The 'I'm Not Paralysed' Remix)
Twists and Bends
Imaginary Worlds (the Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect Remix) *
Reach Out and Touch Someone (A drabble Remixed)
500 Bottles of Beer (The 'Really Growing On Me' Remix)


I've been lazy of late and still owe some of these comments, but I'm very impressed by the general standard of quality.

* Okay I just want to point out that it's weird that someone remixed me and, without knowing my (second) favorite band, drew their remix title from a Decemberists song lyric. REMIXING IS EERIE AND AWESOME, GUYS.

Remixers, check your lj messages, because I wrote you each a note revealing your remixee. These notes are decreasingly coherent, sorry (too tired for srs fandom business), but hopefully they all manage to convey who has to do what, and if they don't you can pm me back and deliver stern denunciations of my manner of address. And stuff. Good luck!

What's a Remix generally?

Often while reading fic you think 'this is entirely compelling and masterfully written by the very fountain pen of the gods, but I would have added dinosaurs. Lots of dinosaurs.' In a remix, you take a consenting participants' list of fic, choose one, and, in a given span of time, rewrite in a thousand words or more. While you CAN'T change the pairing or the basic plot line, the challenge is to substantially rewrite the fic in question. If you really make it your own while preserving the basic structure, by Jove's exquisite fountain pen, you've done it!

You could shift POV, tenses, change the genre (drama to comedy, for example), write it from a different point in time, expand the beginning or the end, take a central /idea/ of the story and delve into it in a way the original author did not, write a drabble as a full fic, or almost anything else: the idea is to write it from /your/ vantage point, not recapitulate  their work. For more info, see this , this or this. Please avoid WIPs.

Can I get in on this sweet remixing action?

A participant should have three or more stories for their remixer to choose from. The sign-up period will be one week (ending July 24th), and the writing period two months (ending September 24th). You've a good, long window of time to get this done, but contact me if you feel that due to IRL drama (such as a dinosaur attack) you cannot complete your remix, I will summon a Pinch Hitter to see if he or she can step in to remix your person in your stead.

A Doctor/Master Remix:

The Doctor/Master Remix will stick to stories that include that pairing, but won't exclude people who aren't intimately familiar with everything canon's ever done. If you only know New Who, you can still play. We'll match you up with an author you can work with. Given that it's a pairing specific remix, please don't decide that your story would be ever so much more awesome if you replaced Ainley!Master with the 4-5-6. Even if it would be funny. And terrible.

Further Information:

If for whatever reason you don't want a specific story remixed, you are allowed one Safe Story, and your remixer must respect that and keep his or her hands off.

Are you of Herculean writing powers? Do you possess an especially generous soul? You could volunteer to be such an Pinch Hitter (as seen in paragraph 2!). This means someone has gone AWOL and we need you to remix something their person's written in whatever time period's left, provided I think that can be reasonably accomplished. We would drape you in laurels, crown you in glory, and generally think you're pretty neato.

Please comment with the information below If you'd like to participate in the Doctor/Master fic remix:

Name:
Email:
Live journal, website, or other fic index:*
Safe Story:
Stories that have been remixed:
What are eras are you comfortable writing? (NewWho, Classic, BFA audio, comics, books, etc.)
Are there any eras you're not comfortable writing? (See above)
Are you willing to pinch-hit if needed?
Comfortable writing NC-17 content?

*Your remixer will find it convenient if you've got your eligible fic indexed via a post, tags, or anything of that nature. Some people like to leave their remixer a helpful post directing them towards the fic.