[ SECRET POST #2076 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2076 ⌋

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Comments

[silverr]

Yeah, and .... your previous beta might not have been malicious ... just a shitty beta.

I also agree with previous commentor - drop in a preface saying you decided to do a major overhaul, and then have at it.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here: my previous beta wasn't malicious but pushed me to write the story she wanted to read but could never find. Which I now realize was because she wanted an OOC mess justifying her personal headcanon of emo and manpain.

Thank you for your advice, I've maybe seen someone do it once.

[silverr]

A. That's still a shitty beta. Really good betas help you figure out how to write the story YOU want to tell, and keep you from mucking your own creation up.

(Not that they can't have opinions.)

Well, I'm encouraging you to overhaul. Maybe you even title it "[Old Title]: reboot" or "[Old title]: 2012 Edition" or something like that. If readers did feel that the original version turned into a hot mess, then perhaps being up front with the fact that it's a makeover will actually bring people in.

(And fwiw, I've done a number of rethinks on multichapter WIPs ... sometimes after a period of years. Writing can in fact be more like a garden than a bronze sculpture, imo.)