more adventures in remix land

[vanitashaze]

It is so much harder to remix a good author than a bad one. You know why? Because it seems that they've thought of everything already, whereas the bad ones leave plot holes the size of lower Manhattan! I suppose it's my fault, really; I have this insane devotion towards things having additional meaning. It can't just be pretty, oh no - it has to add some new dimension to the story.

I just don't get it. Why is this so hard?

Comments

[dossier.livejournal.com]

I empathize completely. I did remix once, and swore i wasn't cut out for it.

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm thinking something along those lines. It's not that I'm completely bad at remixing - for instance, I love remixing bad stuff and turning into good stuff; in fact, see the entire SGA fandom for that - but I have quickly found that I just cannot do good stuff. (I suppose it doesn't help that my remixee for the most part writes in alternating POVs; that old switch-the-POV remix staple is pretty bloody useless. Though, scratch that. I am actually doing that! But it was very hard, I tell you. Very hard.)