Missing Pieces...

[msqu]

With three exchanges under the belt of hprare_exchange in about a year's time, I feel it's time to really get some feedback from all of you

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[msqu]

Have you ever heard a remix of a song on the radio or somewhere? It's the same basic principle. In a remix exchange, you are assigned to a particular author. The author can designate one 'safe story' that you can't do anything to, but aside from that, you read through their stuff and choose one story that you want to retell/remix. This could be by telling the story from a different point of view, from the point of view of a different character, possibly changing up the sequential order (giving flashes of the end throughout the story), adding more commentary for/ellaborating upon about particular events parts of the plot, adding in scenes that you think could have happened or were hinted to have happened, etc, etc.

The plot must remain unchanged, but you can decorate it and retell it almost any way you want to.

I think the way that rarepair awards would work would be for me to come up with some categories, and then open them up for nominations. Maybe a category would be Cedric-centric one-shots. People would reply with their recs, and then me and a panel of helpers would sift through the fics and come back in about a month or so with the finalists. We would post the finalists for each category in a poll with links to the stories so that people could read and vote. Then after two weeks or so, the winners would be announced.

Thanks so much for your input and interest. :)