Our hosts this month are Joylene Nowell Butler, Louise Barbour, and Tyrean Martinson!
Here's the question for February: Is there a story or book you've written you want to/wish you could go back and change?
I have to admit I'm my own worst critic. While I did the best I could for each book (keeping in mind I self-edit), I'm sure I could find lots of things I'd like to change if I reread my stories, especially the older ones. However, as an indie author, it's probably much easier for me to revise my work if I feel it's necessary. I'm actually in the middle of preparing a paperback version of a story previously published online. I've written several stories in this particular universe and know the characters better now, so I want to revise some sections while keeping the original plot. In particular, I want to provide more backstory in a scene where one of the main characters meets his long-lost siblings. I also want to change some details for consistency with other works in this series. I still haven't decided if I'll revise the online version to match the paper copy.
If you have the option to change one of your published works, would you do it? Why or why not? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
3 comments:
There are probably minor things I might change like rewording a sentence to be more dynamic, but nothing major springs to mind.
I think a lot of us would make changes to older works. I put my first manuscript in a drawer years ago. I'm hoping to pull it out and fix it.
I mostly write and self-publish short story collections and so once I publish those I don't bother going back to change them; I just want to get on to the next book intending to do better. One exception may be if I decide to add a new story I wrote after the collection had been published that goes really well with that collection's theme. Other than that, I just go on to putting together the next book.
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