[Discussion] Rewriting

Have you ever rewritten a work you wrote previously?

I honestly have not, but have changed some things in the first to second draft. I've never thought "I want to rewrite this entire thing" yet, tbh.

I have not, and I don't think I ever will. I get annoyed just making large edits to a story during the editing process, I'm not re-writing an entire story from scratch. I'd rather abandon something that needed that much reworking and start something fresh.

I've rewritten a few chapters of a long work, but never entirely. I tried to do that with one of my very first fanfiction but only posted two chapters of the rewrite haha. Pretty much like GP I rather move on to a new story.

I haven't rewritten anything, and I doubt I would rewrite anything I've published and considered to be finished. No one-shots, no RP posts, nothing like that- but I put out the first few chapters of a couple epic multi-chapter fics out long ago, and I think I'd fully rewrite those if I came back to the stories with intent to finish them. Which I can see myself doing eventually :) I like the ideas still~

I'm on the fourth drafting of Shattered Crests. The current version on this site is the third since it's the furthest and the one I want to finish so I can have a complete draft of book 1. The fourth is the improved version plot, scene, and edits wise. I plan to do a fifth and final version for grammar and all that.

I always rewrite mine, sometimes even in a month

I rewrite very few times. Try to avoid it at all if possible. Instead, I prefer to do "Updated Releases" or "Director's Cut" to post the complete version as it would have been, since many of the reasons why I need to update or rewrite are tied to stuff like contests / deadlines and stuff.

For example, and I think the only that's the case here in PC, Playfield Redux is literally a 10th Anniversary rewrite, mostly so I could get out of the constraints of the original's writeup (it was a SWC contest entry) and get it up to speed with my setting and worldbuilding.

As someone who writes practically every day but doesn't post what I write all that often, mostly because coming with intricate plot-ideas character-interactions and lore is much easier than actually writing the story itself, you have no idea how many times I have rewritten my stories.

The plot for my upcoming series of Pokemon fangames have been rewritten 4 or 5 times, my old DBZ-fanfic Fireworks is undergoing a massive rewrite, and some of my plot ideas keeps coming back time and time again with a different name and franchise each time.

What can I say? My head is full of plot-bunnies at all times…

Vragon2.0 said:

I'm on the fourth drafting of Shattered Crests. The current version on this site is the third since it's the furthest and the one I want to finish so I can have a complete draft of book 1. The fourth is the improved version plot, scene, and edits wise. I plan to do a fifth and final version for grammar and all that.

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With so many versions I think they should have a certain linking logic.