Remixes

I admit, I'm on the fence when it comes to remixing stories. Aside from the whole intellectual property caboodle, I would think it's a very difficult prospect, to transform a work that balances the original ideas with your own, to say nothing of issues of style. Too close to the original and it looks like plagarism (no matter how much love you may have started the project with); too far away from the source and it doesn't ring true, doesn't capitalize on the connection between the two works.

As for being the person--the remixee?--with the story that someone wants to re-fashion...I don't know what I would say. It's a flattering proposal, yes, but every story I write is, to over use the often-used, a baby. Or a piece of me. Whatever. Sounds ridiculous, but it's accurate in my experience. (No, I don't have flesh-and-blood children. Yes, I love my writing very, very deeply.) Do I just lend something so precious out to anyone who asks? Even if I wanted to, I'm not sure I could unclench enough to actually go through with it.

This is a line of thought that crops up every once in a while. It's a fairly academic debate most of the time, but now...I read a very short story recently, and had desirous thoughts, spawned from mis-reading a couple sentences and then getting really interested in the differences I'd inadvertently made.

Argh. Of course this would plague me ten minutes before I wanted to go to sleep.

~later

One-page Wonders!

I've been tinkering this week on several different stories. Accordingly, I've got snippets to share! (See? I've been...productive! XD)

General warnings: a serious undercurrent of the gay can be found in most of the stories I do. Also, there's almost always a rash of swearing. These snippets are so rough that I don't know if they'll make the cut in their various stories...assuming that there's a bigger story afoot. Apologies if any of these are re-posts: I don't always remember what I've shared before.

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( Gojyo's porn gets the axe. (My Fair Lady!Saiyuki) )

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( Crazy AR-Schwartz where Nagi's the team leader and Crawford is a hooker and Schuldig's trying to reel the wild precog in so Nagi won't be pissed off. )

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( a smidge of the ongoing Visitors... )

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( Canon-esque Gojyo and Hakkai stuff...a bit of a rehash of their roommate-ism. )

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( WWII Schwartz...kinda )

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Well! I shall now attempt to do something that isn't writing so that I can buckle down all the more tomorrow.

~later