How It Works

[telesilla]

Remix Goes Wild is a low pressure, long term, non-exchange remix challenge that allows you to remix your own fic as well as fic written by others. Using a set up based very loosely on the old table challenges, the challenge will be to do different types of remixes based on a list of remix prompts. In other words, you take Story A and remix it by changing the POV and then move on to Story B and remix it by adding a missing scene and then move on to Story C and...well you get the idea.

In addition to the goals listed above, the idea of this challenge is to push the boundaries of what constitutes a remix. How far can you change a story before it is no longer a remix of the original but a story very similar to the original? The prompts were designed with that in mind and also with the hope that people will have fun with them.

Your mods are telesilla and torachan.




Sign Ups

Sign Ups will begin on April 1 and will continue for almost the whole run of the challenge.

The challenge itself will run from April 1 through December 31, 2011. Winners will be announced in January of 2012 and we hope to have prizes to award.

You will not have to put your fic up in order to participate as a remixer. Writers who wish to be remixed may put their fic up without participating as remixers. Or you can do both.

Signing up to write does not commit you to anything; you may drop out at any time and you don't even have to let the mods know.


For Remixers:

When you sign up to remix, you will not be assigned a writer. Instead we will ask for writers willing to be remixed and put up a list. You can choose any story by any writer on that list OR you may remix your own work. You do not have to stick to one writer for the whole challenge. So, for example, you could remix one of your own stories with a POV shift, Genderbend one of telesilla's stories and then move on and add a new scene to one of torachan's stories.

You may not remix co-written fic or a WIP. You may remix a remix of someone else's fic but only if you have permission from the author of original fic, either because they also put their fic up for this fest or you contacted them and obtained their permission. You may remix a fic by someone who has not offered their fic if you obtain their permission and make a note of it in your author's notes.

The one exception is that you may only remix one of your own fics for prompt 29.

For Writers Offering Fic

Writers offering their fic will have the following options. You may specify which fandoms you're allowing to be remixed and you will have one safe story. And, you may opt out of three remix prompts. So, for example, I could offer up my Lotrips and SGA fic, except for "Where the Brave Dare Not Go" and opt out of prompts 5, 10, and 18. I know it sounds complicated, but we'll have a form for you. And, of course, you do not have to opt out of any prompts nor do you have to specify a safe story.

If you put your fic up to be remixed, there is no guarantee you will be remixed.


About Remixing and Using the Prompts.

The minimum word count is 500, with the obvious exceptions of prompt 8.

The Prompt List will be posted in a seperate post and there will also be a series of posts going into more detail for each prompt.

You may do as many of the prompts as many times as you like, so, for example, there's nothing to stop you from doing five remixes based on Prompt Four. You may remix the same story as many times as you want.

Our definition of a remix is deliberately loose. The idea is to play with remix ideas and to see how much you can change while still retaining enough of the original to call your story a remix. While we will be reading as many of the fics as we can, we'll be doing that for fun and not to police our writers.

While the prompt you chose to use for a particular story should be the primary focus of the remix*, a certain amount of overlap is allowed. Just make sure that any other prompts used in the remix are there to serve the primary prompt. So if you're turning a romance into a hard-boiled detective story for the genre prompt, you can change the narrative voice and tense from third and past to first and present because those changes are part of the genre and so it's still about a genre change. Again, we won't be checking up on you or anything.

*With the obvious exception of prompt 24.

Points and Winning

Everyone who participates is a winner, however, in order to make things a little more interesting for those of you who like competition, we have, somewhat arbitrarily, assigned points (from one to three) to each prompt.

The points system is under revision.

Questions on the rules? This is the place to ask.

Comments

[sqbr]

I'm not actually fussed about points, but because it's good to have these things clarified.

My understanding:

Suppose Prompts 1 and 2 are both worth 3 points each.

Prompt 1 on Story A and Prompt 2 on Story B: six points

Prompt 1 on Story A and then Prompt 2 on Story A: four points

Prompt 1 on Story A and then Prompt 1 again on Story B: six points

The only time doing a variety of prompts gets more points is if you do all 28 prompts.

Is this right?

[telesilla]

Huh, yeah, you're right. I think I need to revamp the whole points system to make more sense. Thank you for pointing the flaws out. :)

[sqbr]

I am much better at equations than writing fanfic, it's nice to have a use for it :)

[copracat]

Just to clarify as I'm feeling a bit woolly:

You may remix a remix of someone else's fic but only if you have the author's permission

In order to remix my story "the chasez method (the his warm embrace mix)", the remixer would need my permission and the permission of silveryscrape, who wrote the original story, "The Chasez Method"?

[telesilla]

*nods* Exactly! I need to reword that to say "original author." Thanks for asking!

[briar_pipe]

My brain's a tad slow tonight, so I was wondering: will we only be allowed to remix our own work or work that is put up in the remixable post? Will we not be able to remix stories offered to us by friends? I only ask because your idea and the prompts sound really fun, but most of my current fandoms don't overlap with the folks playing in this comm, so it's unlikely that there will be anything offered on the post that I would be interested in remixing right now, just based on my fandom interests. That would mean I'd be stuck working with my own stories only.

It's fine if that's the way you intended it to work. I just wanted to clarify. ^_^

[telesilla]

We just talked this over and we're fine with people remixing authors who don't sign up, as long as you're the one to get their permission. It doesn't have to be formal or mailed to us or anything, you'll just need to put something in your author's notes. I'll make a change to the rules.

[briar_pipe]

Thank you! That was a very quick response. ^_^

That seems like a very reasonable requirement.

Comics?

[sqbr]

This probably only applies to me and isn't a HUGE deal, but thought I should mention that my AO3 account (which is what I will presumably be linking to) contains a bunch of comics (and art, but that's less relevant). I'm fine with them being remixed but can see someone thinking "Would she be ok with me remixing this? Would it count for the challenge?" So I thought I should bring it up now. Personally I think a plotty comic suits being remixed into a new prose story as much as a fic, but I don't know if other people (eg you :)) will feel the same way, and it does make some of the prompts ambiguous (does a comic with 100 words of dialogue count as a drabble?)

For that matter, would it be ok for me to create remixes as comics?

[anehan]

The one exception is that you may only remix one of your own fics for prompt 28.

I think that's prompt 29 now, yes?

[telesilla]

Oooops, yeah. Thanks for pointing that out. :)

[kumquatix]

Do we post where we like during the rest of 2011, and report in with our list of fills when the time comes to tally the points, or should we post/announce our fics in this community?

Is an automated "Related work notification" from the Archive of Our Own an acceptable way to let other participants know that their work has been remixed?

[telesilla]

We're still hammering out a few details, but I'll have something up about posting and notifications before the weekend is out. :)

[amaresu]

Silly question, but can we remix a remix of our own fic?

[telesilla]

As long as you have the permission of the remixer, sure. So say if I wanted to remix torachan's remix of one of my fics, I'd be fine because he's offered his fic for remixing. If I wanted to remix argosy's remix of my fic, I'd have to ask her because she hasn't signed up.

And it's not a silly question. In fact, remixing something that was originally yours and then remixed is kind of a cool idea. :)O

[amaresu]

Awesome. That makes me very happy. I'll have to keep an eye out on who's signing up. I've been wanting to do a remix of a remix for ages.

[welfycat]

Question: Can we do a remix that is also for another comm, assuming that comm does not have a problem with it as well?

For example, I wrote a Criminal Minds au fic for kink bingo, and I would like to do the au to different au prompt, but also use it for the April Kink Bingo mini challenge.

[hope]

Hello awesome mod(s), I have a request:

- Are you able to make a links list for the comm that has at least the list of writers & prompts posts linked from them? Or, if that's not possible, link them from the profile? They are the two posts I (and I imagine, other participants) need to go back to most frequently, and as time goes on more and more digging is required to find them again.

And an idea:

- Will there be a collection on the AO3 for remix_goes_wild stories? Considering so many of the participants have AO3 accounts, it seems like it'd be awesome to make use of the interlink/inspired-by features there and create a network of stories that the challenge ends up involving/resulting in. (I am happy to create such a thing, for the record!)

Cheers!