|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 3:10 pm
That I started on five years ago. -_- Like I can see my writing has drastically changed. I really want to finish this story, but I don't like my old style. Problem is I can't just delete and redo. I already wrote like ten chapters... Unless that's the only way to solve it...
Have you guys ever tried to revive an old story and saw that your writing has changed? If so, how did you get around it? And if not, got any advice for me? >>
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:16 pm
Re-write it. Same meanings, just using my new writing style.
It's actually what I am currently doing to one project of mine.
I tackle it paragraph by paragraph.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 5:45 pm
Faux Start, in the Showcase and Critique lounge, is such a story for me. I started it back in 2001, when I first thought of Fujino Masako, and it has been revised and changed so often...except for two tiny sections (the intro and one scene later).
Seriously. The original text for her looks terrible in comparison. And that's before you take into consideration her original setting was a generic fantasy world, rather than an urban fantasy (that changed around 2009-2011 ish, as if that's specific).
My thoughts are to not delete, just rewrite. Find a word or phrase you could do better, and change it. Then repeat.
Or, you could try and mimic the style you had, and just expand on it.
At the end of the day, you're just gonna have to sit down and do it. One way or another, Nike just do it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:09 pm
I'm actually working with a novel-turned-trilogy of mine that has a similar problem. (I originally intended for the one I'm working on right now to be a standalone novel, but then I wrote a short story that turned into the sequel, which means I wrote the entire sequel before coming back to discover that the first novel was actually the first in the trilogy--and that my writing had improved considerably after having written the draft for an entire book. My writing always seems to be doing that to me... finding ways of intertwining without my deliberate intention.)
Anyways, I basically just kept writing the first book from where I left off. I intend to get the entire draft down on paper before editing anything, which means I don't intend to touch a red pen until the whole trilogy is completed. I'm working faster this way than when I tried to go back and fix everything.
So maybe it'd be easier to just keep working your way towards the end of the story itself and then fuss over the wording later when you edit/rewrite/revise.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 7:21 pm
My current project is actually a re-writing of an idea that I'd conceived 5 years ago. Redoing the whole thing can be a bit pain, so it's best if you try your hand at tweaking it bit by little bit to suit your current writing style.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 1:28 pm
I just pick up where I left off and fix it when I do the editing.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
