Has anyone re-written and re-submitted a story

[8letters]

Short version:
Has anyone taken down a story, re-written it to improve its quality and then re-submitted it?

Long version:
My very first story I published on LitE is Heather and Michael, which I split into chapters 01 and 02. It's a great example of in the Incest/Taboo Category a badly-written story with an appealing premise getting a good score.

I started work on a sequel. It was going to be chapters 03-06. I published 03 and it was the first time I got consistently negative comments. I knew the way Chapter 04 was would provoke even more negative comments. I couldn't get myself to finish Chapter 04 so I stopped writing. Over a year later, I published a completely different story. I later decided to abandon the sequel.

I've greatly improved my writing skills since the initial H&M story. In August, I published two very successful stories. Once nice thing about having a successful story is that readers then started reading my whole library. The one bad thing is that readers would leave negative comments on H&M like:

People don't speak in this formal fashion in casual conversation, and you do it quite a few times. What someone would say is, "... so I'LL have another good day... " and "I'M feeling..." Listen to the way people talk.

Missing words
You say in your preamble that this story has been edited, there are quite a few missing words throughout, I suggest that you get a better editor

I also got three requests to continue the sequel.

I got into an email conversation with the author Anomic and he asked me about the H&M sequel. I sent him what I had for Chapter 04. He liked that but wondered what happened next. I sent him what I had for Chapter 05. That got me excited about finishing the sequel.

So I'm re-writing H&M. I've added a new chapter before Chapter 01, I've changed the POV from third person to first person. I've changed the reason that Heather and Michael drift into a sexual relationship. I hadn't thought about the sequel when I wrote the first two chapters, so I'm adding content to the original story that foreshadows the sequel. I've cleaned up a bunch of writing errors. Maybe I'll finish the first draft of the re-write in a week. Then I'll start re-writing and finishing the sequel. Once that's done, I'll delete the three existing H&M chapters and then publish the story under a new name ("The Twins Go Camping") and publish the sequel with a sequelish name ("The Twins Go Camping: Maddie Joins In").

Has any done something like this?

 

[lovecraft68]

I've rewritten stories that debuted here, but to sell them. However it goes up here is how it stays.

 

[NotWise]

Short version:
Has anyone taken down a story, re-written it to improve its quality and then re-submitted it?

I did that last winter with a story that I mistakenly posted to Romance. I took it down (or, er... asked Laurel to take it down) then added some more explicit sex and posted it to EC.

It got a miserable reception in EC, possibly at least in part because I added an author's note at the beginning that detailed the history. No reader really needs to know the history and I think the note puts people off from reading a cast-aside story from the Romance category.

Every now and then I think of editing it again to remove the note and make the final scene more "rewarding," but that won't be a take-down-and-replace.

 

[TamLin01]

Sure, all the time. Another edit is rarely a bad thing.

You probably shouldn't do it just trying to please people, though. That way lies madness...or at least a chore that can't possibly end.

 

[sr71plt]

This is the end of the line for my stories, most of them already having had a run in the marketplace. It's too late for me to worry about them here, and I have a care for those trying to submit stories for the first time and having to compete for submissions editor attention with those just fussing around with repostings. If you reedit it and resubmit it, it isn't going on the New list. Its front shelf time is long gone.

 

[Hypoxia]

One of my early stories here was Under His Eyes. Someone bitched that it was a snuff story (it ain't) and had it removed. I rewrote it slightly to counter that accusation and posted it in another category as Right Under His Eyes. I could have just re-submitted the original with an -EDIT tag but I was young and dumb then. Then I asked Laurel to reconsider the original, and it's back up, with nasty comments and everything. Together they spawned the other-sense sequel Still Under His Eyes. I've since rewritten and resubmitted a very few other tales. But mostly, when it's done, it's done. Time to move on.

 

[DeYaKen]

Short version:
Has anyone taken down a story, re-written it to improve its quality and then re-submitted it?

Long version:
My very first story I published on LitE is Heather and Michael, which I split into chapters 01 and 02. It's a great example of in the Incest/Taboo Category a badly-written story with an appealing premise getting a good score.

I started work on a sequel. It was going to be chapters 03-06. I published 03 and it was the first time I got consistently negative comments. I knew the way Chapter 04 was would provoke even more negative comments. I couldn't get myself to finish Chapter 04 so I stopped writing. Over a year later, I published a completely different story. I later decided to abandon the sequel.

I've greatly improved my writing skills since the initial H&M story. In August, I published two very successful stories. Once nice thing about having a successful story is that readers then started reading my whole library. The one bad thing is that readers would leave negative comments on H&M like:



I also got three requests to continue the sequel.

I got into an email conversation with the author Anomic and he asked me about the H&M sequel. I sent him what I had for Chapter 04. He liked that but wondered what happened next. I sent him what I had for Chapter 05. That got me excited about finishing the sequel.

So I'm re-writing H&M. I've added a new chapter before Chapter 01, I've changed the POV from third person to first person. I've changed the reason that Heather and Michael drift into a sexual relationship. I hadn't thought about the sequel when I wrote the first two chapters, so I'm adding content to the original story that foreshadows the sequel. I've cleaned up a bunch of writing errors. Maybe I'll finish the first draft of the re-write in a week. Then I'll start re-writing and finishing the sequel. Once that's done, I'll delete the three existing H&M chapters and then publish the story under a new name ("The Twins Go Camping") and publish the sequel with a sequelish name ("The Twins Go Camping: Maddie Joins In").

Has any done something like this?

One thing to bear in mind is that the new "improved " version will not necessarily be accepted. It will be treated like a new story.
I once did this with a two part story, removing some grammatical errors and writing a new, better ending. Part one was accepted but part two was rejected because of "punctuation errors in the dialogue". The odd thing was that the dialogue had not been changed. I felt that I'd wasted enough time on it, so I withdrew the edit. Now there is a new improved version in another place while Lit makes do with the old one.