Editing Old Stories

[oggbashan]

I finally started on the task of editing some of my older posted stories.

I managed three today. There are only 135 (including my poetry) to go.

I should complete by 2020, maybe.

Anyone else procrastinating edits?

Og

 

[FallingToFly]

I finally started on the task of editing some of my older posted stories.

I managed three today. There are only 135 (including my poetry) to go.

I should complete by 2020, maybe.

Anyone else procrastinating edits?

Og

Yep. Wanna trade? I'll edit yours if you edit mine.

 

[oggbashan]

Yep. Wanna trade? I'll edit yours if you edit mine.

Don't tempt me. Your list is fairly short by comparison.

Remember that most of my stories run into multiple Lit pages. The fifty-word sets are an aberration.

Og

 

[FallingToFly]

Don't tempt me. Your list is fairly short by comparison.

Remember that most of my stories run into multiple Lit pages. The fifty-word sets are an aberration.

Og

tell ya want... send me one of yours and I'll send you one of mine... I have nothing better to do except write bubble bath smut and a piece I started a few minutes ago that is so emo it should be bleeding out on my living room floor.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Funny you mention that... I did two edits today... and re-recorded my first audio story, which no one could hear!

 

[Darkniciad]

I actually just finished editing a whole six part series, three side stories, and decided I'm going to go back and do a quotation-punctuation correction on three I've already edited for things I used to do that make me cringe before move forward to edit the rest of the series.

I've been slowly editing my whole catalog, trying to keep everything somewhat consistant. It helps that I'm slowing down on side stories and concentrating on my core tale, and that I've learned to avoid the biggest part of my old quirks. The newer the stories, the easier they will be do deal with. Once I finish dealing with the old stuff, things will go much quicker.

When all these edits will get submitted is another thing. I don't want to put them all in the queue at once, so I just drop in one or two at a time, wait until they get approved, and then drop in a couple more. I just feel like I'm distracting from new stories by submitting edits that the editors have to deal with in the queue.

 

[ibhard]

i don't edit my old ones. i just take them offline and burn them. they're too embarrassing for resubmitting after a nip and tuck.

 

[simply_cyn]

i don't edit my old ones. i just take them offline and burn them. they're too embarrassing for resubmitting after a nip and tuck.

LOL I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets embarrassed by some of my earlier work and just trashes it ...

 

[oggbashan]

LOL I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets embarrassed by some of my earlier work and just trashes it ...

That is part of the decision-making process in editing.

If once upon a time I thought it was worth posting on Literotica - I'll leave it posted even if NOW I think my earlier decision was wrong. If I edit an older work I would leave it as conceived, just correct any grammatical errors, typos and slack writing with a minimal touch.

For example, Earth to Earth ran about 350 words beyond a Lit page. During the edit I cut about 375 words out so that it now fits on one page. That was the most drastic edit of the three I have done. That story also needed editing because the main character's name switched from Blodwen to Bronwen in the last few paragraphs. Doh!

If the work needs a complete rewrite e.g. Hen Party and Stag Party, I will rewrite them and submit as new works, leaving the originals with an author's note that these versions have been superseded.

Og

 

[rgraham666]

Only done it once so far, with my first work, Fatima.

I wasn't embarrassed by it. I just thought it could use improvement. And I submitted the first version in chapters which, in hindsight, was a mistake.

 

[deathlynx]

I edit my stories after I finish writing...then periodically I'll pull one out to read/edit...And of course when I've submitted here to Lit I go through reading the story to confirm the Story Tags and usually edit slightly for word choice...

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I'm in the process of editing an older story right now. I'm cringing my way through it because the story itself is worth it. At least I know that I'm a better writer now. Oh, and having spell check this time around really helps.

 

[simply_cyn]

Now there are some stories of mine that I definately need to go back and edit because I DO want to keep them and then have good ratings ... I just need to fix some silly mistakes. It's kind of like my first chapter of All Grown Up - the tense is just WRONG. I played around with a different way of writing and it just didn't work out and confused my reader.

Also, I want to put all my chapters of Blackbeard's Curse together, add in a section that my readers were clamouring (unhappily) that I left out and add the ending. Voila!

Now, just to do it ...

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I have two I want to edit and one series that I'm completely rewriting. I had started on that, but then stopped, but I keep meaning to get back to it. I have a question. . . perhaps I'll have to toss it to the Survivor folks. I'm curious if those stories would be eligible for survivor. . probably not the frist 2 because they aren't going to be new, the rewrite will be very different then the original series.

 

[simply_cyn]

ooooo LOVE the AV, Redhaired!

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

ooooo LOVE the AV, Redhaired!

Thank you.