Replacing stories with rewrites?

[DanDraper]

I've seen this explained before but I can't find that thread. How do you ask to replace a published story with a rewrite?

The reason is that I want to fix a few errors in a couple of my stories and instead of having them deleted and published again, it may be better to just to have them replaced.


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[MillieDynamite]

I've seen this explained before but I can't find that thread. How do you ask to replace a published story with a rewrite?

The reason is that I want to fix a few errors in a couple of my stories and instead of having them deleted and published again, it may be better to just to have them replaced.


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behind the title add the word EDITED and add a Note to Admin that it has been Edited and is already published.

 

[ElectricBlue]

behind the title add the word EDITED and add a Note to Admin that it has been Edited and is already published.

Resubmit the whole story - the update process discards the old content and completely replaces it with the new. All metadata is kept. Edits are low priority, so expect it to take a week or so.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Resubmit the whole story - the update process discards the old content and completely replaces it with the new. All metadata is kept. Edits are low priority, so expect it to take a week or so.

For sure on the week or more. Mines been there in limbo for almost a week and half. And it's a silly edit. I found one misused word. Carrier, instead of career but when I saw the mistake on a re-read though, it nettled me, nagging at my mind. So I fixed it. Put in the cue. I'm sure their are several mistakes in most of my work that I put up here.

I had one complaint that my descriptions were strange, comparing a woman orgasm to waves crashing on sandy beach's and rocky shores. Of course, he was man and has never experienced more than spurting a juice inside a pussy. Love making isn't a wild wonderful rollercoaster ride for him.

Ops I've said to much, or I haven't said enough.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I submitted an edit for the title of one of my stories. It took ten days.

 

[DanDraper]

behind the title add the word EDITED and add a Note to Admin that it has been Edited and is already published.

Thank you.


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[AlinaX]

I had one complaint that my descriptions were strange, comparing a woman orgasm to waves crashing on sandy beach's and rocky shores. Of course, he was man and has never experienced more than spurting a juice inside a pussy. Love making isn't a wild wonderful rollercoaster ride for him.

Ops I've said to much, or I haven't said enough.

lol

It is a bit of a movie cliche, though.

 

[MadeleineSinha]

Ops I've said to much, or I haven't said enough.

Is that you in the corner?

 

[gordo12]

Is that you in the corner?

She's losing her religion...

 

[MillieDynamite]

Is that you in the corner?

NO, it isn't me. She's much prettier than me and comes from Adobe Stock. The picture is a model that has appeared on a few of my book covers. I have used my own pics in the past. I don't do that anymore because of a Facebook thing that happened years a go. Actually the Facebook thing was the catalyst of what happened. Anyway, I'm gun-shy of showing my pics to strangers now.

 

[MillieDynamite]

She's losing her religion...

Well, it's a misquote from REM's Losing My Religion. But yes that's where it came from.

 

[TadOverdon]

I had one complaint that my descriptions were strange, comparing a woman orgasm to waves crashing on sandy beach's and rocky shores. Of course, he was man and has never experienced more than spurting a juice inside a pussy. Love making isn't a wild wonderful rollercoaster ride for him.

Just ran across this while doing a search for another topic. That is a strange complaint indeed. I have to stop myself from going back way to often too the well (and there's sort of a pun) of ocean and surf metaphors to describe deep orgasm. It's just so intuitive. And I've never had the guys I've collaborated with question it as odd, either.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Just ran across this while doing a search for another topic. That is a strange complaint indeed. I have to stop myself from going back way to often too the well (and there's sort of a pun) of ocean and surf metaphors to describe deep orgasm. It's just so intuitive. And I've never had the guys I've collaborated with question it as odd, either.

He was the first person to say such a thing on a sex scene I'd written. I to have to watch out doing the same descriptions over and over. Self plagiarism is allowed, but not always wise.



I miss-understood the reference to the me in the corner (Yes, on the forum, it is my pic and the feet and legs in boots are mine in the signature.

 

[Agiel]

Oops I've said to much, or I haven't said enough.

In respect of a story, you can never say too much if the words used are right for the story and used well. I’ve read long scenes, sex and otherwise, which have been so damn boring I’ve given up and skipped them entirely. Sometimes ditching the story altogether. I’ve also read stories with scenes the same length which have been really interesting and kept me glued to the page.

 

[lovecraft68]

I recently rewrote an old story from 2012, but only did so because a publisher wanted to include it a taboo Halloween anthology and I wanted it to shine.

In general I don't bother with rewrites to fix a few mistakes. No copy is perfect, no matter how many times you look at a story you'll find something else wrong.

Also, you're edited version does not constitute a new story so you're not going to get a ton of new reads on it.

Mainly, my thought process has always been I could spend that time on something new, and leaving some mistakes up there is motivation to try and show improvement moving forward.

I know that was not the question, but more my opinion on rewrites here in general. I don't feel they're worth it unless there is something seriously wrong in the story.