Two Weeks to Go! Also: Headers and what to do if you go on holiday.

[papilio_luna]

Remixes are due two weeks from today, on Wednesday, July 8.
Since up here in the northern hemisphere it is the height of holiday season, please think ahead and, if you are not actually going to be somewhere with internet on July 8, let me know. In the event that you won't be able to post that day, I will ask you to please email your remix to me (

Comments

[unfolded73]

*is a bit confused* Okay, reading your example, I would assume that "Runaways" is the title of your newly-written fic, and "The Bedroom Window" is the title of the original fic. Yet in your clarification later, it sounds like it's the other way around, because the Runaways link goes to the original fic.

As another example, I might dub chapter 5 of Losing Control "The Fury Remix". Because it's Fury that was the object of remixing. Am I making any sense at all?

[papilio_luna]

The standard way of doing it is that the title for your fic is the same as the title of the original fic, and then you add (The ______ Remix) to distinguish your remix from the original fic. So Chapter 5 of Losing Control would be Fury (The Losing Control Remix) (or probably a much cleverer remix name).

For another, more concrete, example, The fic The Boy Who Killed Time was written by netgirl_y2k. Rosa_acicularis then remixed that fic, and her remix is titled The Boy Who Killed Time (The Last Love Song Remix).

And a final example, just so I know we're all on the same page (sorry to flood your inbox with edits):

astrogirl2 wrote Paleolinguistics. kindkit then remixed that fic as Paleolinguistics (The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Remix).

[unfolded73]

Okay, I understand your interpretation now. I think part of my confusion is explained in my response to karenor below: that on comms, I always link my fic in the title in order to make it a more compact post.

[karenor]

I think I'd be confused by that header (possibly for the same reason as unfolded, up there) because some people put links to their fic in the title line. And even with the remix label on there, I'd assume the new fic was behind that link, even with the link/fake cut after the header.

Maybe something like...

Title: fic, the remixy remix.
Remix of: [linky title of original fic] by author.

?

[unfolded73]

Yeah, I always link my fic in the title line, mainly because that's the way time_and_chips instructs you to do it. (EDIT: Now I can't find where they say that, but I know somewhere I once saw it encouraged.) So that's probably some of the source of my confusion. I like the unambiguousness of your way.

[karenor]

that's the way time_and_chips instructs you to do it

Do they? I always just go with the fake cut. A holdover from when I posted fic there directly, maybe. And I copy the header from my fic journal, so it's easier to plunk the link at the end.

In any case, yeah, I think having only one fic in the title line, instead of the name of the new one and link to the original, would probably be less confusing.

[unfolded73]

Well, now I'm wondering if I dreamed it. But there was some comm that encouraged it at some point, I swear. :)