Hmm. While I can certainly understand enjoying the remix as its own stand-alone, it never occurred to me that people might enjoy trying to guess what the original story was like based on the remix.
I honestly might have done the story I did very differently if I had realized that most people would read the original first; (ie, I spend time building suspense re: something that is much less suspenseful if you've seen the original!)
I don't know what story you wrote, but this made me think of The Ballad of Charles Whitman (Apocalypse Remix) (http://remix.illuminatedtext.com/dbfiction.php?fiction_id=506), Original Story: Revelations (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=liz_marcs&keyword=Revelations+%28BtVS%3B+PG%29&filter=all). I read "Revelations" first, and reading "The Ballad of Charles Whitman" afterward I admit it did feel a bit slow because I knew what was going to happen and, like, I wanted the other shoe to hurry up and drop. But because the story was in Xander's POV and starting at the beginning I knew there had to be build-up and I appreciated that the remix author was so thorough about that.
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Date: 2006-04-02 04:50 am (UTC)I honestly might have done the story I did very differently if I had realized that most people would read the original first; (ie, I spend time building suspense re: something that is much less suspenseful if you've seen the original!)
I don't know what story you wrote, but this made me think of The Ballad of Charles Whitman (Apocalypse Remix) (http://remix.illuminatedtext.com/dbfiction.php?fiction_id=506), Original Story: Revelations (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=liz_marcs&keyword=Revelations+%28BtVS%3B+PG%29&filter=all). I read "Revelations" first, and reading "The Ballad of Charles Whitman" afterward I admit it did feel a bit slow because I knew what was going to happen and, like, I wanted the other shoe to hurry up and drop. But because the story was in Xander's POV and starting at the beginning I knew there had to be build-up and I appreciated that the remix author was so thorough about that.