Concerning Flitter: revised version · 8:34pm Apr 26th, 2012
Hi,
To all you people out there who faved my changeling story 'Flitter'... I've got a bit of a dilemma, here.
I've spent today revising and expanding the story, to basically make it what it should've been if it hadn't been written under the influence of sleep deprivation, and posted here less than an hour after writing it, rather than getting a good night's sleep and making sure it was up to my normal writing quality first. One of the things that bothered me most, namely, the far too sudden beginning, and with it, the lack of establishment of the two main characters, has been rectified now. With the addition of some new details of the chase through the Palace towers I also think I've got the flow of emotions paced out better now.
Now, here's my dilemma... I could do three things with this new version.
The first, and obvious one, is to update it. This would mean blatantly overwriting the original, though, and (even though it's still largely the same) basically replacing the actual thing so many of you faved. This would also make a lot of the constructive criticism in the comments look irrelevant or even downright unfair, which I don't think is a fair thing to do to you guys.
The second choice is to add it as new chapter, and leave the original as it is. This is my preferred route, but it would kind of mess up the page for new readers, since people traditionally check out the first chapter first. I'd add a note at the start, of course, but still, feels kinda weird to do, especially if I ever add more chapters.
The third is to post the rewrite as new story. I don't really like this one, first of all because it would mean it wouldn't have all the relevant feedback (and faves) of the old one, and secondly because I don't know how close that comes to FimFic's "Don't post the same story twice" rule.
The new version is roughly 3500 words long, which is quite a bit more than the original's 2000, but as I said, the revisions were mostly additions.
So, yeah... help me out, please? 
Go with the second choice, changing the title of the chapters to "Chapter 1" and "Chapter 1 (revised)" respectively.
At least, that is what I'd do.
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Yeah, I've decided to go with that. Thanks for the input :)
I'd say go route 2 one could be the movie and the other the mini series/director's cut.
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Yup. I just finished posting it. :)