More Remix
Apr. 25th, 2012 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakRemix Madness 2012, the one week writing time addendum to regular Remix, has also gone online. I got a remix of my Angel story Summertime Blues, which was about Connor's time with Fred and Gunn during the s3 to s4 hiatus. The remix, And your enemies closer (the Ten Things Connor Learned About Fred remix), offers a vivid description of Fred from Connor's pov, which I enjoyed reading.
I haven't gotten around to many of the other Madness stories yet, but I liked a Highlander story, I am become death (the Alexandra Leaving remix) , which is a lovely take on Alexa, whom I've always had a soft spot for.
Meanwhile, as expected, the Remix angst has started to get me in its toothy grip. You know, that eternal cycle of "hooray, a kudos! hooray, a comment!...and another....and after the third, nothing...curse you, hit counter, you're telling me only 24 people have read this story I poured my heart and soul into and which I think is one of my finest ever! Why? Woe is me! Etc." My inner rationalist points out I knew going in that writing something in a non-popular fandom means less people reading it, and if hits were all I wanted I could have remixed a story in several of the very large fandoms my remixee and I share, but I listened to the muse, as one must, so there.
(My remix madness story isn't ragingly popular, either, but then it was something additional and written for character and old fandom affection, so there's less angst.)
Then, just as I have a really good writerly despair fit going, it's rudely interrupted by getting a couple of comments both at FFN and AO3 for several old AtS stories of mine (but not the ones that were just remixed). A writer's lot is a confusing one, but keep it coming. :)
I haven't gotten around to many of the other Madness stories yet, but I liked a Highlander story, I am become death (the Alexandra Leaving remix) , which is a lovely take on Alexa, whom I've always had a soft spot for.
Meanwhile, as expected, the Remix angst has started to get me in its toothy grip. You know, that eternal cycle of "hooray, a kudos! hooray, a comment!...and another....and after the third, nothing...curse you, hit counter, you're telling me only 24 people have read this story I poured my heart and soul into and which I think is one of my finest ever! Why? Woe is me! Etc." My inner rationalist points out I knew going in that writing something in a non-popular fandom means less people reading it, and if hits were all I wanted I could have remixed a story in several of the very large fandoms my remixee and I share, but I listened to the muse, as one must, so there.
(My remix madness story isn't ragingly popular, either, but then it was something additional and written for character and old fandom affection, so there's less angst.)
Then, just as I have a really good writerly despair fit going, it's rudely interrupted by getting a couple of comments both at FFN and AO3 for several old AtS stories of mine (but not the ones that were just remixed). A writer's lot is a confusing one, but keep it coming. :)
