Changing a story

[wakela]

So, if you're a writer, and you get your story published on EP, PC or PP, and you read the listener comments, and you read some stuff that would make your story better, do you go back and change it? 

[Boggled Coriander]

I've wondered the same thing. 

Bear in mind that, with a few exceptions, most of the fiction published in EA podcasts has already been published elsewhere, so generally the author's already received a great deal of feedback.  But if it were me, I'd want to keep tinkering with the story to no end. 

Who was it who said, "A poem is never finished -- only abandoned"?

[Scattercat]

I would, personally.  Mind you, I've yet to have anything published anywhere (beyond a few drabbles at the Drabblecast), so I can't say for sure.  I'm always willing to adjust things, though, so long as it seems necessary to me.

[Portrait in Flesh]

Once a particular story has been published, I wouldn't go back to tweak it.

But I would apply what I've learned from criticisms for my next story.  Otherwise I could end up obsessing over a single story without trying my hand at something new.

[Unblinking]

Once it's been published, I try to avoid any major changes to it.  I might consider minor revisions like changing a scene order, or adding a couple lines of dialogue where they might add some clarity.  Anything that would change the synopsis of the story--no thanks.

[DKT]

Kind of what Unblinking and Portrait in the Flesh have said. If it's published, it's published, and I'll probably focus on whatever I'm working on next. The one circumstance I'd probably consider rewriting it is if someone was paying me to do it (for a reprint, which has actually happened to me).

[Millenium_King]

I only bother changing it if I'm going to submit it elsewhere and I feel the change would be beneficial.

[Listener]

Once I've sold a story, I don't rewrite it unless asked to by another market. That hasn't happened yet.