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Does your rewrite change plot details?  In other words, will follow-on chapters still make sense, without any continuity problems?

If so, i'd say just do a normal chapter repost.  If the change is significant enough that it will "break" any of the following chapters, then my suggestion would still not be to post it as a new story.  It would be to delete the chapters of the old story, and treat them as if they never existed, then post the newly edited chapters into the existing story.  Otherwise, you're going to wind up with two stories on the site that are going to share a title and a description, and readers are going to find it very hard to tell which one they're supposed to read.

There is, however, no "rule" about this, so handle it in whatever way works best for you.

Eric Storm

Eric Storm wrote:

Does your rewrite change plot details?  In other words, will follow-on chapters still make sense, without any continuity problems?

If so, i'd say just do a normal chapter repost.  If the change is significant enough that it will "break" any of the following chapters, then my suggestion would still not be to post it as a new story.  It would be to delete the chapters of the old story, and treat them as if they never existed, then post the newly edited chapters into the existing story.  Otherwise, you're going to wind up with two stories on the site that are going to share a title and a description, and readers are going to find it very hard to tell which one they're supposed to read.

There is, however, no "rule" about this, so handle it in whatever way works best for you.

Eric Storm

I agree with Eric 100% on this.   

I would add that.. while your story is in "Ongoing" form.  E.g. "Not yet complete."  you can consider the story in Draft form, so even major changes are to be expected. I did a revision of Cabal somewhere around chapter 10 where I had an idea that changed some minor things and had to go back and update all the previous chapters to maintain coherence. It was not a major change, but a lot of little ones.  I just reposted those chapters.

What you could do is ..
if you make a significant change to a previously posted chapter.. update the title putting [Revised: 1..] at the end of the title.
So your readers know they should re-read that/those sections.

Then when the story is complete... ( last chapter published ) remove all those [Revised] tags and mark the story complete.  following that.. you could do a "Second Edditon" if you want to re-write the story.

just some thoughts.   your story, you do you.

Ps. are you on the discord?

abaddon.pale wrote:

Ps. are you on the discord?

Didn't know there was one.

I get a little nervous with personal details, as I wouldn't want to blow up my life.

That said, what does the discord entail?

-Kalli

abaddon.pale wrote:

**Suggestion/Comment**

--Katie looked excited for a moment. "But you shouldn't," her mom said. Katie stuck out her tongue at her mother. "You shouldn't because he'll feel used. You didn't like when boys took advantage of you being bigger and stronger, went around consent..." she said, and Katie crossed her arms, like a cartoon child in the middle of the pool. Clearly they were referencing something I hadn't been a part of. Katie was always in charge with boys in this town.--

I've noticed you do this from time to time.   Switch who's speaking mid-paragraph.  The specific case above isn't so bad. But it does cause a bit of a hickup in reading, as you try to figure out who is speaking.   I personally like to in dialog make sure if a different character is speaking than the one that was previously speaking or being described, I start a new paragraph so the change is clear.

I have re-read this paragraph I think five times now, just to make sure I'm not missing something.

There aren't two people speaking here.  There is one person speaking, and one person narrating.  This story is apparently being told from first-person POV (Disclaimer:  I haven't read the story), which will regularly wind up with the narrator referencing themselves in paragraphs that include the dialogue of others.

I do agree, however, that this paragraph needs some kind of rewrite.  Not to fix the problem you're pointing out, but to improve flow.  Breaking it into smaller paragraphs might help.

Also, it's not just your personal preference, but actually a style rule that any paragraph should contain dialogue from only one speaker.  If a new person starts speaking, you are supposed to start a new paragraph.

Eric Storm

PS:  It's spelled "hiccup".