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kelly_chamblissREMIX has gone live with over 200 stories and 130+ fandoms, and guess what? I got the best gift of them all!
My fabulous remixer has taken my gen fic Road Trip (McGonagall, Moody, Flitwick, Arthur Weasley) and created a stunning re-imagination of it. It's a great premise: the writer takes a moment from the original, when the magical folk stop at a Muggle petrol station, and imagines that scene as viewed from the perspective of the shop assistant. The assistant is never even mentioned in the original, yet she remakes the entire story. I want to write my own fanfic about her now.
This is why I love remixing. By taking details from the original and re-imagining them, offering other ways of looking at the scene, a talented author (like my remixer) creates an even fuller, more believable world. It's because we love to spend time in a given fictional world that we become fanficcers in the first place, and a good remixer offers us an even more pleasurably-immersive experience.
Don't miss this grand story: The Storytelling Shopgirl. I love it.
While you are there, check out some of the other stories, too. I haven't had a chance to read much yet, but there are quite a few intriguing HP fics: one with Irma Pince/Madam Hooch, others with Albus/Gellert and Millicent/Ginny and Severus and his mother. And there are even a couple of Star Trek VOY and DS9. (Plus all the usual suspects -- Dr Who and Buffy and Sherlock and Tolkien and comic universes and even a Les Miz,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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(And now that I reread "Road Trip," I see quite a few flaws, especially in the opening. I'm looking forward to reworking it).
My fabulous remixer has taken my gen fic Road Trip (McGonagall, Moody, Flitwick, Arthur Weasley) and created a stunning re-imagination of it. It's a great premise: the writer takes a moment from the original, when the magical folk stop at a Muggle petrol station, and imagines that scene as viewed from the perspective of the shop assistant. The assistant is never even mentioned in the original, yet she remakes the entire story. I want to write my own fanfic about her now.
This is why I love remixing. By taking details from the original and re-imagining them, offering other ways of looking at the scene, a talented author (like my remixer) creates an even fuller, more believable world. It's because we love to spend time in a given fictional world that we become fanficcers in the first place, and a good remixer offers us an even more pleasurably-immersive experience.
Don't miss this grand story: The Storytelling Shopgirl. I love it.
While you are there, check out some of the other stories, too. I haven't had a chance to read much yet, but there are quite a few intriguing HP fics: one with Irma Pince/Madam Hooch, others with Albus/Gellert and Millicent/Ginny and Severus and his mother. And there are even a couple of Star Trek VOY and DS9. (Plus all the usual suspects -- Dr Who and Buffy and Sherlock and Tolkien and comic universes and even a Les Miz,
miss_morland!)(And now that I reread "Road Trip," I see quite a few flaws, especially in the opening. I'm looking forward to reworking it).
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Date: 2014-05-14 06:47 pm (UTC)I'm glad you got a nice remix! The link seems to go to another of your posts, though...?