Jdrama Remix: Declaration of Intention

[jain]

jentfic_remix ended three weeks ago, I just submitted my remixredux story last night, and now I'm itching to do another one. I've seen several people express interest in a Japanese drama remix, and I'm most definitely interested myself, so...mark your calendars, because it's happening this summer!

The reason that I'm mentioning this now, when I'm not planning to open sign-ups for the exchange until mid-May, is that there are people on my flist who I think (and hope, because you're awesome writers) would be interested in participating, and I want to make sure that anyone in that position has time to write enough stories to qualify if they don't have at least three stories in a Jdrama fandom written already.

Here are the basics:

* Sign-ups will open May 12th and close May 17th, and then assignments will go out by May 20th. Completed stories will be due on July 20th.

* Fandoms eligible for remixing include all Japanese dramas, though if you happen to write in a more obscure one, please try to convince some of your friends from that fandom to participate, as well. Otherwise I won't be able to match you with anyone else in the exchange.

* To qualify for participation, you have to have written at least three stories in a Japanese drama fandom. (If you've written in more than one Jdrama fandom, that's great, but you'll only list those fandoms for which you've written at least three stories in your sign-ups.) Each qualifying story must be at least 500 words long, cannot be a crossover, cannot be a PWP, and cannot be incomplete.

Just to clarify: this means you have to have written three stories per qualifying fandom. If you've written two Nobuta wo Produce stories and two Hana Yori Dango stories, that's not good enough. If you've written three Hana Yori Dango stories, on the other hand, you're golden.

* There will be no matching on genre or pairing: if you participate, you have to be prepared to remix slash, het, femslash, or gen without changing the pairings in the original story. (The one exception to this rule is if the person to whom you're assigned only writes incest pairings and you're not comfortable writing that. In the unlikely event that this occurs, you may remix the story as gen rather than as slash, femslash, or het.)

* The remix you write will have to be a minimum of 1000 words long. There is no maximum wordcount.

* See jdrama_remix for further details.


I'm really hoping that some of you end up participating! Also, please pimp this out to any of your friends who might be interested.

Comments

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Just to make sure I understand correctly - that's three stories for one j-drama? Three Nobuta fics, for instance? (And thanks for the heads-up, if that's the case I need to get cracking to finish a third. ;D)

[jain]

That's right; you need to have written three stories for each of your eligible fandoms (and you need to have at least one eligible fandom in order to participate at all).

[ilanala]

That 500 word minimum always kills me, since my jdrama fic tends to be short (and I have one Nobuta fic that's 486 words). But with advance warning, I guess I can try to come up with something else by mid-May. (I have enough fics to qualify for Kurosagi, but I get the feeling nobody else would.)

Anyway, I'm glad you're doing this. It'll be exciting to see more jdrama fic, and I'm excited to try my hand at remixing now that I know a little better how it works.

[jain]

I have enough fics to qualify for Kurosagi, but I get the feeling nobody else would.

I haven't written any Kurosagi yet myself, but I was already planning to offer it as one of the fandoms I'd be willing to remix (and I suspect other people will, as well), so that works just fine as your qualifying fandom. The "bring your friends" suggestion applies only to fandoms that other participants aren't able or willing to remix. I'd be more concerned if someone who writes, say, Galileo (or, worse, some obscure drama from the '80s) wanted to participate, but Kurosagi's popular enough that that's not an issue.

And since you're willing to remix a story in non-Kurosagi fandoms, it won't be any problem matching you that way, either. Though, you know, if you wanted to write more Nobuta fic by mid-May, I'm the last person to say no to that. :-)

[asinful.livejournal.com]

I approve of this Jdrama remix idea very much. I'll need to see how busy I am when you open the sign ups, but I'm definitely interested. :)

[wintersjuly.livejournal.com]

the idea sounds so good but we all know what happened to my jentfic remix thing already... >_>

[jain]

Oh, yay! I do hope you have the time later to participate. (And remember that there will be two full months between the day assignments go out and the day stories are due, so even if you're busy in May, you might still participate and just write your remix in June or early July.)

[jain]

Well, yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean you have to fail at every challenge you participate in. If you really don't trust yourself to finish a remix for the jdrama remix exchange, then of course I'll believe your assessment. On the other hand, if you think flaking out on the jentfic remix was a one time thing, then I'm not going to hold it against you. And, either way, I hope you enjoy the stories that people write for this exchange.

[peroxidepest17.livejournal.com]

asdfjkl;asdkj;l after the whole fiasco with jentfic_remix I was like "no more remixes for me."

And then you do THIS.

I AM SO WEAK.

[jain]

I'm hoping that this remix ends up considerably less fiasco-like. :-) At the very least, I can promise that all of the participants will have remixes written for them by the time the stories go live.

And you're not weak, you're...optimistic. For which I'm very grateful and appreciative, because nothing makes a fanfiction exchange more successful than good writers as participants.

[peroxidepest17.livejournal.com]

Haha well! I am optimistic in hoping that there will be My Boss My Hero people out there maybe; I think the only two categories I'm qualified for currently are MBMH and Nobuta though I'm sort-of okay for Gokusen 2 too, if you count that giant drama-smash fic I did. >>

[rolling-scone.livejournal.com]

*sighs at self* like I'll be able to squirt out three fics before the sign ups.

...maybe >.>

[jain]

Crossovers don't count as qualifying stories--they just make the matching process too hard--but your MBMH and Nobuta stories will definitely work. And I'm also hoping for MBMH people (and Kurosagi people, and Akihabara@deep people, and etc.). I love Nobuta to pieces, and it's a small and underrepresented fandom in its own right, but I really hope that it doesn't end up dominating the exchange too much.

[jain]

There's still a month before sign-ups end, and the three qualifying stories can be as short as 500 words. I know it's not always as simple as that, with life and other obligations getting in the way (and with stories that sometimes insist on being longer and plottier), but I think it would be really great if you tried.

I'm actually planning to do the same myself; I'm hoping for more variety in the exchange, so I'm going to try to write a couple Akihabara@deep stories in the next month. Good luck if you do decide to give it a try!

[peroxidepest17.livejournal.com]

I hope it doesn't too! I am always dying for MBMH fic. SIGH.