Re-writing stories

3 May 2017

If you go back to any of your much older stories here and make edits, please check to see if your paragraph spacing remains. If not you may have to manually space and you'll see double-spacing between paragraphs. We'd prefer you take care of it if at all possible. However, if you can't get that to just one space, leave the double space and write a note in the Note to Moderators box. We can fix that.

6 May 2017

I put out this question on another thread before I found this one, which is more pertinent:

How do you edit a published story? I found several typos that both I and the mod overlooked, and I'd like to clean it up if I can.

I would never change anything of major import in a published story. If I came up with a better, more clever phrase, I'll just use it somewhere else.

Stories are like children: you nurture them and raise them. Publishing is akin to them graduating college or getting married - starting their lives on their own. Whatever you have done to shape them is by and large in the past, and they are their own people now.

6 May 2017

Quote by latecomer91364
I put out this question on another thread before I found this one, which is more pertinent:

How do you edit a published story? I found several typos that both I and the mod overlooked, and I'd like to clean it up if I can.

Go to 'My Stories' (in the drop down menu from your profile pic), and there's an 'edit' option with each story. Make your changes, re-submit and then a mod will check it over (which should be very quick if it's just a few typoes fixed).

6 May 2017

When I first checked out Lush, I went digging into the early stories of some authors with recent EPs and/or RRs (who I won't name, not least because I don't remember exactly who...they were just names to me at the time). I think I was trying to convince myself that it didn't matter if my stories weren't perfect and everyone has to start somewhere. If everyone went back and perfected their early stories, then people wouldn't be able to see that progression. Not sure if anyone else bothers to dig like that...I realize that I may just be odd.

So, I guess I'm reluctant to change stories that have been published. I mostly avoid the urge by not actually reading them. icon_smile

Stories that haven't been published...well, they're fair game for editing and re-editing ad infinitum...

6 May 2017

Quote by PhilU

Go to 'My Stories' (in the drop down menu from your profile pic), and there's an 'edit' option with each story. Make your changes, re-submit and then a mod will check it over (which should be very quick if it's just a few typoes fixed).

Thank you so much, you handsome roo - I found it.