Posting Stories and feedback

Welcome, Pat! Everyone here has their own way of incorporating helpful suggestions into their posts. Unlike Bill, I like to edit as close to the time of the review as I can manage, so the chapter reflects the changes made very soon, but I don't re-post that chapter. New reviewers will see the edited chapter when they come across it. I do it this way, rather than do a complete edit upon completion, because I find the latter to be too laborious, and subject to missing things that came up in reviews weeks, if not months, earlier. Another advantage is that you won't be spending points to re-post that chapter. But to each his/her own. Good luck with your project!  Jack

Too late to modify my last post so I'll just add that I do immediately edit any suggestions/corrections on the current chapter, but I don't post it again until the entire novel is finished.

Bill

I do both. When I posted the previous version of my novel, I was still exploring where I was going with the story, and the feedback reflected the fact that I would need to make major changes, so I soon gave up trying to make the changes on the fly. For my final draft, the suggested changes are mostly minor and I'm making those as soon as they come in, then I copy and paste those changes from MS Word into my online version chapter. I only re-post a chapter using points if it involves major changes and I want the same reviewers to look at it again, otherwise I just edit over the existing online version of the chapter and carry on.

One of the nice things about editing over the existing chapter is that those who haven't reviewed it yet will still receive points for doing so. The advantage of reposting is that everyone receives points and your posted work reappears on everyone's home page.

If you repost, increment the version number for the new chapter, and hide the previous version, unless you want reviewers to see both. You can also delete the previous version, but then you lose all of the reviews associated with it (I think).