Apart from my LJ stuff I only write for zines, so I'm not quite sure if what I have to say is fully valid for your poll. If not, please ignore my ramblings.
Until very recently I wasn't happy for any of my zine stories to go on-line. However, I have finally allowed three of my older Pros stories to go to the Circuit Archive. I did actually run these by my usual editor before they went up and although as I was going through them my fingers did itch a little to rewrite them, I forced myself not to on the grounds that 'why rewrite something I've already written'?
Yes, there were things I'd do differently if I were writing the stories today, but stories to me show the development of the writer, and I actually think it's quite interesting to see how a writer has changed, not always I have to say for the better, throughout her/his writing 'career'.
When I get a the trib copy of a zine in which my story appears I do quite often think 'oops, I should have said so and so,', but should I ever decide to put more of my stories online, I certainly won't change them before they go up, and once up I won't fiddle with them. I want to write new stories, not go back and rewrite what I've already written.
But I certainly do re-read my stuff, maybe that sound narcissistic, but after all if a writer doesn't read her/his own writing, how can she/he expect other people to? :-)
Also, I write the kind of stuff I like to read, which means whether it's established relationship (my favourite) or first time stories a good ninety-eight percent of the time the conflict will mainly, if not all, be external to the couple. Plus, in first time stories there's little agonising over 'should we/shouldn't we', etc. and once they've crossed that line, that's it, it's rare for me to then have them 'oh, but we shouldn't do this, it was a one off', kind of thing. Therefore, if I'm really in the mood for this kind of thing, and although these are my favourite kinds of stories, I don't only read them, I know that I can always fall back on my own stories.
What a long ramble to explain the short answer: yes, I re-read; no, I don't re-edit :-) Sorry!
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Date: 2005-06-14 02:49 pm (UTC)Until very recently I wasn't happy for any of my zine stories to go on-line. However, I have finally allowed three of my older Pros stories to go to the Circuit Archive. I did actually run these by my usual editor before they went up and although as I was going through them my fingers did itch a little to rewrite them, I forced myself not to on the grounds that 'why rewrite something I've already written'?
Yes, there were things I'd do differently if I were writing the stories today, but stories to me show the development of the writer, and I actually think it's quite interesting to see how a writer has changed, not always I have to say for the better, throughout her/his writing 'career'.
When I get a the trib copy of a zine in which my story appears I do quite often think 'oops, I should have said so and so,', but should I ever decide to put more of my stories online, I certainly won't change them before they go up, and once up I won't fiddle with them. I want to write new stories, not go back and rewrite what I've already written.
But I certainly do re-read my stuff, maybe that sound narcissistic, but after all if a writer doesn't read her/his own writing, how can she/he expect other people to? :-)
Also, I write the kind of stuff I like to read, which means whether it's established relationship (my favourite) or first time stories a good ninety-eight percent of the time the conflict will mainly, if not all, be external to the couple. Plus, in first time stories there's little agonising over 'should we/shouldn't we', etc. and once they've crossed that line, that's it, it's rare for me to then have them 'oh, but we shouldn't do this, it was a one off', kind of thing. Therefore, if I'm really in the mood for this kind of thing, and although these are my favourite kinds of stories, I don't only read them, I know that I can always fall back on my own stories.
What a long ramble to explain the short answer: yes, I re-read; no, I don't re-edit :-) Sorry!