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FrickingKaos:
There is someone I am friends with who seems to rewrite her story all the time....and now she is changing the characters to include her friends. If you're gonna rewrite it, do it for yourself and not to make your friends happy.

I am rewriting my clone series for the reasons I stated earlier but I am leaving the original stories posted so people can still read them. I am adding things to You Give Love A Bad Name but not rewriting the whole story, just to clear up errors that were pointed out. For me going back to edit after it was written is okay.

Purpura Lipstick:
I acually rewrote one of my older stories because when I had the issue with the provider of my friend's site that hosted mine, got mad at her he deleted her site with no real warning.  It was after my computer's hard drive crashed so I lost a lot of stuff.  Messing With Magic was lost so I decided to rewrite it from memory so I could post it on AC.

I do remember recently going through Fighting Fate and having to change the color of the girl's eyes cause I had them two different colors. HEH.  That didn't require a major rewrite but it needed to be corrected. 

I have thought about rewriting More Than That.  It is one of my first fanfics written and I've grown so much I would love to give that story a "better shot" but at the same time I hate to mess with my "classics". 

mare:
I haven't ever thought about going back and rewriting anything. Even with the mistakes, most have been around and read by now with those mistakes so I really feel no urgency to fix them. Maybe if I were to post it somewhere new where people were going to be reading it for the first time, I may go back and fix some mistakes. I would never completely rewrite a story unless I was changing it to an OF.

As far as reading, I wouldn't go back and read a reworked version of someone's older story. If the plot didn't appeal to me the first time, it wouldn't the second or on the flip side, if I enjoyed it as us once why bother reading it again? lol

Sakabelle:
I had considered going back and re-writing In Pieces, or at least fixing some parts that were wrong. Like the concert they go to being at the MN State Fair instead of at the Target Center like it is in the story.

I have actually had it happen where I go back to read something, only to discover it was completely different than what it was the first time I read it! The writing had definitely improved... but it wasn't the story I had loved originally anymore. If she had re-written it and left the original there, I honestly probably would have read both, and I still read the re-worked version anyway... but it just wasn't the same. The nostalgia factor was gone. It was like watching a re-make of a movie. Those are fine, because the original movie still exists. I don't mind re-makes honestly, just keep the original there.

And holy crap, this is so weird because they announced today they're remaking Sailor Moon LOL. And I'm SO EXCITED. But it's the same deal, if they were to re-make that and destroy all copies of the original series, I'd be really upset because though I'm sure this re-make will be a thousand times better, obviously the original has a huge nostalgia factor for me and I love it to pieces. So there you go! So I guess my take on it is, go ahead, remake it, but leave the original there too!

FrickingKaos:
If they left the original version up, I'd read both to see how the two compare. I just don't like it when someone rewrites like every few months and acts like that was the original story all along.

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