I've rewritten long fanfiction before. It can be the worst thing ever, just because of the scale of it, but I found it was totally worth the effort, because the fic is so much better now. The characters are much more fleshed out, and the story feels much more complete, and complex, in a way it didn't before.
I found the best way to approach it was to just start again from scratch, and let the story evolve as it wants to evolve. Don't force it to be something it doesn't want to be, and if there's things you wanted to fix specifically, you can do those this time round, and fill in gaps, and generally do a better job of it than the first version.
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Date: 2016-02-07 07:52 am (UTC)I found the best way to approach it was to just start again from scratch, and let the story evolve as it wants to evolve. Don't force it to be something it doesn't want to be, and if there's things you wanted to fix specifically, you can do those this time round, and fill in gaps, and generally do a better job of it than the first version.