Posted rough draft

[Ezrollin]

I posted a rough draft by mistake, I plan to make some corrections and changes to the story, is it ok to remove the story and resubmit at a later time?

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

Just re edit and you will be fine.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Submit your final draft with the same title plus the word EDIT, and a note to the Editor.

It'll take a couple of weeks to process. You might want to add your own comment, advising what you're doing.

 

[Altissimus]

Depends how big the gap is between 'rough draft' and 'final version'. If your story is so rough that it's not finished and/or includes your plot note bullets down the bottom of the final page, I'd pull it and resubmit. Deleting is a lot faster than editing (3-5 days vs 3-5 weeks).

 

[gunhilltrain]

I posted a rough draft by mistake, I plan to make some corrections and changes to the story, is it ok to remove the story and resubmit at a later time?

If it hasn't been posted yet, you can pull it just by opening up the pending file and making changes to it. It goes back into "draft" mode that way. If it has been published, well then you have to submit the corrected version and wait. Yes, maybe deleting and resubmitting it is faster as suggested above. Otherwise, it could be five weeks as was happening over the summer. The readers will have long since moved on by then.

Always look at your dashboard and see what's in the pending folder. If something doesn't belong in there, you still have time to pull it out.

 

[KeithD]

If it's really rough, delete it and just resubmit when you have a polished version. Readers will get an impression--false in this case--of how well you write as long as the "draft" is posted as a story and will respond accordingly in deciding whether to read another story by you.

 

[gunhilltrain]

If it's really rough, delete it and just resubmit when you have a polished version. Readers will get an impression--false in this case--of how well you write as long as the "draft" is posted as a story and will respond accordingly in deciding whether to read another story by you.

There is a good chance that they won't even notice that the old one even existed. If you give it ten days or so, the next version will seem all-new to them. It's not just short attention spans. I'd guess there is a constant churn of different readers for each story that is posted.