[ SECRET POST #4915 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4915 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 62 secrets from Secret Submission Post #704.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 etiquette question. I'm writing a fic I'm posting as a series. I want to go back and revise parts of it. But will that piss off the people who have bookmarked or commented on parts of it?

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

It wouldn't bother me personally. IDK.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it would bother me. Dunno about other people though.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see why it would. If you happen to remove a scene or change dialogue (and someone really liked it and did not happen to download it-- which is not your fault, OP) I could see maybe one person feeling bad?

If you're that concerned, maybe make an alternative scenes fic -- where you post the chapters you edited/revised, so that whoever eants can go ahead and download them and switch the chapters etc. And it can be a temp fic you leave up for a month. New readers won't know what has been removed
I certainly never do.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I would be revising fairly substantially. Thanks for the suggestion for an alternative scenes fic.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

It depends to what degree you're revising it. Are you tidying up spelling and punctuation? Removing a few extraneous adverbs? Tightening up the dialogue?
Or are the changes you want to make a little more significant? Have you decided that a certain character is a jerk and you're going to rework their scenes to reflect that? Have you gone off a secondary pairing and you want to erase it? Do you want to change who won that argument half way through the story?

If it's the former, almost no-one will object and you don't even need to make a note of it. If it's the latter, it might be better to post the revised version as its own thing

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Significant revisions. Thanks for the advice to post the revised version as its own thing.

Re: Advice

[silverr]

I have done post-posting edits for eighteen years. No one's ever complained, because who doesn't want a slightly more polished version on re-read.

Except for one time, I've never made significant changes: usually it's something like, I swap the position of a few sentences in a paragraph, tighten up the wording, clean up stray little typos that I and my beta missed, and so on. As a courtesy to the people who do download, however, I always put, at the very bottom of the fic/chapter, a line that lists the initial post date and the most recent revision date, e.g., First post 21 October 2017; rev 12 Feb 2020.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

OP here, thanks for the suggestion of adding a note about the original post date and the revision date.

Re: Advice

[tabaqui]

I don't think anyone will mind, but just in case - post a note when you put up your next chapter saying something like 'I'm going to be doing a little tidying up/editing of past chapters. Mostly some typos/grammar things, a few minor tightening-up of sentences and such.'

Or however you feel best describes what you're doing. That way, everyone knows, they can download the fic as-if if they prefer, and otherwise, you just go on your merry way, making your fic the best it can be! :D

And unless you delete whole chapters and then post as 'new', the comments and bookmarks will stay the same.