Any rules/protocol about improving & resubmitting stories?

[christo]

Walt Whitman once said, "A work of art is never finished, it is only abandoned." Or maybe that was Joseph Conrad. Or Picasso. Anyone, someone who knew said that once, and it always stuck with me. Not who said it, but the maxim. You get the point.

Anyway, to get to my point, are there rules about going back to stories you posted years ago and fixing them up and re-posting them? The first four or five stories I did weren't my best work, and after going through them and wincing a fair bit I'd like to clean them up, spruce them up a bit, make them, uh, good. I don't know if this is frowned upon, encouraged, or if it's a big, "Ehh, who cares?"

Anyone else out there resubmit stuff? Either as a touch up to a previous work, or a major overhaul? I'm looking at doing both to several of my (deservedly) lowest-ranked stories.

 

[The Sex Master]

Walt Whitman once said, "A work of art is never finished, it is only abandoned." Or maybe that was Joseph Conrad. Or Picasso. Anyone, someone who knew said that once, and it always stuck with me. Not who said it, but the maxim. You get the point.

Anyway, to get to my point, are there rules about going back to stories you posted years ago and fixing them up and re-posting them? The first four or five stories I did weren't my best work, and after going through them and wincing a fair bit I'd like to clean them up, spruce them up a bit, make them, uh, good. I don't know if this is frowned upon, encouraged, or if it's a big, "Ehh, who cares?"

Anyone else out there resubmit stuff? Either as a touch up to a previous work, or a major overhaul? I'm looking at doing both to several of my (deservedly) lowest-ranked stories.

Nope
but havent seen any rule against it

 

[Weird Harold]

Anyone else out there resubmit stuff? Either as a touch up to a previous work, or a major overhaul? I'm looking at doing both to several of my (deservedly) lowest-ranked stories.

I've never resubmitted anything myself, because I personally consider a posted story to be "history" and prefer to concentrate on new stories.

There are several ways you can handle this:

Let sleeping dogs lie. This requires the least work, obviously, but it also directs your creative energies toward new works.

Rewrite the stories as "New" stories and have Laurel delete the old stories. This puts your revised stories on the new stories list where the majority of stories receive 90% of their votes. I would clearly identify them as rewritten in an author's note or the title.

Rewrite the stories and submit them as "replacements" for the existing stories. put "this story is a correction of ****" at the beginning of the submission to notify Laurel that it's to replace an existing story. This won't put the stories on the new stories page, nor will it change any existing votes. You'll have to resort to "shameless promotions" to get anyone new to read them in any significant quantity.

 

[The Sex Master]

Re: Re: Any rules/protocol about improving & resubmitting stories?

I've never resubmitted anything myself, because I personally consider a posted story to be "history" and prefer to concentrate on new stories.

There are several ways you can handle this:

Let sleeping dogs lie. This requires the least work, obviously, but it also directs your creative energies toward new works.

Rewrite the stories as "New" stories and have Laurel delete the old stories. This puts your revised stories on the new stories list where the majority of stories receive 90% of their votes. I would clearly identify them as rewritten in an author's note or the title.

Rewrite the stories and submit them as "replacements" for the existing stories. put "this story is a correction of ****" at the beginning of the submission to notify Laurel that it's to replace an existing story. This won't put the stories on the new stories page, nor will it change any existing votes. You'll have to resort to "shameless promotions" to get anyone new to read them in any significant quantity.

Harold,you are a blessing in disguise !