Of late with my pony fics, I've been going into stuff that I've already published and doing a lot of editing beyond just grammar and spelling. I'm not specifically rewriting at all, but I've been adding in lots of new lines here and there, full paragraphs, and occasionally an entirely extra scene altogether.
I wouldn't really call myself a perfectionist but I've certainly been finding lots of things to add in. For example rereading my work several weeks or months after I've written it gives me a fresh perspective, since I can read something a character does, ask myself "Wait, why did she do that again?" and realise that it made sense to me before since I was the author, but from a reader's perspective it was missing something. A line or two fixes that.
Then sometimes I see an opportunity for a punchline I missed before, or the chance for foreshadowing, and so on.
So my question is: how much, if at all, do you edit stuff that you've already published and put out there?
I wouldn't really call myself a perfectionist but I've certainly been finding lots of things to add in. For example rereading my work several weeks or months after I've written it gives me a fresh perspective, since I can read something a character does, ask myself "Wait, why did she do that again?" and realise that it made sense to me before since I was the author, but from a reader's perspective it was missing something. A line or two fixes that.
Then sometimes I see an opportunity for a punchline I missed before, or the chance for foreshadowing, and so on.
So my question is: how much, if at all, do you edit stuff that you've already published and put out there?