New stuff or fix old stuff

[DismaiNaim]

I'm walking into a conundrum where I've been spitting this story out for going on three years now, and in the process I've learned and grown considerably as a writer. I've gone back and rewritten my first 20 chapters give or take, and I'm proud of the result.

The problem is that takes away from time I have to write new content. I feel in my heart that the new stuff is so much better, and I want the old stuff to be as good, but then I go back to 1-2 new chapters a month. WTF

 

[JordanIda]

Never look back.

It takes a long time to not be embarrassed by the stuff one's written five years ago.

 

[Agnetha]

I don't think it's a bad thing looking back. It shows you how much you advanced. on my other platforms i prefer to let the old things like they are because it shows me how much i advanced. If i want to redo it, i do the whole again. Like i copy one chapter, make it better, do the next one. But i always leave the old one.

But if you want maybe try to give you like a schedule. Not to get lost on it. Like one day i rewrite, one day i advance my new series.

Hope this helped

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

LOL

I put 70 chapters out in my first fanfic before I put it on Hiatus... I want to rewrite it at some point... but my current fanfic has my full attention.

I am not rewriting due to embarrassment, that is a factor, but because I started fast, and my tempo didn't slow the entire time... I wanted to put in some slower moments, time to explore the worlds before things went all to hell. As it stands now, its a sprint for 70 chapters.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I'm walking into a conundrum where I've been spitting this story out for going on three years now, and in the process I've learned and grown considerably as a writer. I've gone back and rewritten my first 20 chapters give or take, and I'm proud of the result.

The problem is that takes away from time I have to write new content. I feel in my heart that the new stuff is so much better, and I want the old stuff to be as good, but then I go back to 1-2 new chapters a month. WTF

I feel that. Sometimes reread old stuff looking for the names of "pass throughs" to use and spend the next hour reading and revising instead of writing what I had planned to.

 

[DismaiNaim]

I feel that. Sometimes reread old stuff looking for the names of "pass throughs" to use and spend the next hour reading and revising instead of writing what I had planned to.

hehe

I found a typo in chapter I put out two years ago in which I accidentally gave a character the wrong color eyes. To fix that one little issue, I've now spent hours rewriting the first half of the chapter and haven't even got to the point where MC meets that character.