Remake your old fictions?!

[Eldoria]

As an author, when you look at your old fictions (whether finished fictions or completed volumes), are you interested in rewriting them in the new narrative style or remaking them to suit market trends?

 

[Corty]

Only to fix them, but not to completely rewrite them with a new plot or characters.

 

[Jerynboe]

I’ve got one very long fanfic that I sometimes toy with the idea of reworking into an original series and then maybe publishing. I’d do some extensive edits to smooth over some of the roughness that came from pantsing over 150 chapters, but it would mostly be a rewrite for legal reasons

 

[CodeCrisis]

Some of my old fanfics are works I would love to rewrite, though, not only am I focusing on original stories, but my fanfics are typically only based off anime instead of their source material, meaning I have very little knowledge of them.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Absolutely, as a lot of my stories are 10-15 years old. things like A.I., social media, and political upheaval would play very nicely in some of my stuff now.

 

[Little-Moon]

Totally, I love going through my old stuff.

Many of them have ideas and plans I wasn't able to make work back then but would be today.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I am rewriting and editing my old novels to make them better and sell them physically.

 

[Frowfy]

As an author, when you look at your old fictions (whether finished fictions or completed volumes), are you interested in rewriting them in the new narrative style or remaking them to suit market trends?

I only make a remake after an irreversible action or if there are just a few chapters, in any other case, no. I prefer to write another book. A remake would take at least a year, and a year is very precious.

 

[Bishop_Quarter]

Absolutely. I wrote them when I was still growing. I wanted to make them up to date with my better knowledge.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I remake them because I can't find them. Or at least I try.
Have not gotten past trying to remember what I had for Hunter's Moon, have three of the, I think seven chapters of The Grey Files re-written, have two of five chapters of Assassin King remade, and keep toying with another story that I started seven years ago and am trying to recall the name of.

 

[Bobple]

Every time I have thought about rewriting my first story, I just think no. I kind of like to see my progress, maybe there will be a story I do want to rewrite one day, but hasn't happened yet .

 

[Navillus]

As an author, when you look at your old fictions (whether finished fictions or completed volumes), are you interested in rewriting them in the new narrative style or remaking them to suit market trends?

Occasionally especially because most of mine are many years old and weee written whilst I was bored never to be posted… but I would 100% write an entire alternate universe or rewrite an entire story with improved skill-nyah.

 

[DireBadger]

I have this bad habit of redoing the same story by mistake.

 

[Bartun]

I'm rewriting my novel to improve its quality, not to follow a trend or anything.

I've been improving a lot, and the difference between my first chapter and my last is just too big. Gotta edit all chapters to the same standard before I start writing a new book.

 

[DireBadger]

Have you ever written a story, and suddenly realized that you just accidentally retold another famous story with the serial numbers filed off by mistake??

I just wrote a 240-page modern-day romance superhero tale, and realized that by accident, it had a remarkable amount of parallels to both Genesis and the story of Osiris. And that's without really bringing religion into the mix.

Now I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed. Or if it is just inevitable that everyone writes a new version of the 'seven basic tales'.

 

[rainchip]

That’s literally what I’m doing right now. Not really changing anything to fit current trends much. I’ve been carrying this idea with me for years. I started out on FF.net writing crossover fanfiction—Naruto x High school of the Dead (embarrassing, but I was younger and obsessed with The Walking Dead). The setting hooked me. Zombies in Japan where guns are scarce. Weirdly enough it did well for such a niche with 2k+ reviews and 3k favs/follows.

Old fic was an AU Naruto who was really just an OC in disguise. Although I’d have denied it back then. And since HotD’s characters were pretty flat—mostly fanservice—each rewrite I added more until the cast was basically mine hiding under another show’s skin. Eventually I started taking writing seriously, got some life-changing advice from people who told me to drop the “busty blonde” cliches lol and my style slowly grew from there.

Freaking zombie-reverse-isekai idea never left me. I see it so clearly in my head like a movie synced to whatever music I’m listening to on the way home from whatever I'm doing that day. I burned out years ago from constant rewrites and gave up for a while but now that I’m finally writing it as my own story it feels like I’ve got a fire in my chest. Writing is fun again.

 

[l8rose]

As an author, when you look at your old fictions (whether finished fictions or completed volumes), are you interested in rewriting them in the new narrative style or remaking them to suit market trends?

Hmm, for the most part, no. I tend to leave what was already done as it is.

I have reused characters and ideas with the intent of creating more immersive worlds and lore. Like, the idea of Souls being the power in Dark Veil was originally spawned in Truthteller which I started just after High School (and never finished because I could never find a good way to explain some of the story).

The only exception is my first Dragon Age fanfiction, which I intend to rewrite. It's mostly already rewritten; I just need to find the time to edit and find a way to not make the ending as depressing as it currently is. I like the story too much to leave it as it is but time slips away from me.