LTAS poll

[estepheia]

I am curious. May I ask those of you who've read and enjoyed my story Let's Talk About Sex (Version 1.0) to please answer the poll behind the cut.

I meant to rewrite the story for ages because I feel that my range of expression has come a long way. However, I noticed, while tinkering with the first few chapters, that I am not just fine-tuning the language, getting rid of 'manhoods' and 'members', expanding the vocabulary and adding the odd image here and there. No, I am revamping Spike's character. Literally. If you are curious, you can check out the result here: Version 2.0.

I am rewriting it for myself (and because I miss being in a Spander frame of mind). I don't hate the old version, although it sometimes makes me cringe.
I have no intention of destroying all old versions of the story. Purists can still enjoy the badly formatted, naive original. So, I'm not asking for people's blessing or anything. But I am curious how you see the story and whether your opinion of it has changed or is likely to change.... Indulge me. Pretty please?


[Poll #479030]

Comments

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Just jumping in to say that I thought that the depiction of Spike worked for the type of story that you wrote. That is to say, if you LTAS had been a dark drama, his behavior would have been out of place. But since you were writing mainly romantic, screwball-type comedy, I could see his character manifesting itself that way in those circumstances.

But if you're changing the story, it seems to me inevitable that the character would behave differently as well. Not that you wrote him wildly out of character in version one, or that you're suddenly hit with an epiphany and getting him spot on in version two. But in a re-envisioning of the story, as the narrative tone shifts, he's going to fit into this genre/subgenre/category of story in a different way.