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So I find myself in need of advice on how to recover from a major writing mistake, and this seemed like a good place to ask for it. I am in the process of writing a fanfic on another site, and have been posting the chapters as I finish them. Unfortunately, I now realize that I have made a major structural error in the fic. Roughly put, I skipped ahead to the beginning of the major plot too quickly, both in and out of universe, instead of spending a few chapters and a couple of weeks setting the stage with world-building and character development and letting the characters get to know each other. Now, I know pretty much exactly what I need to add and change to fix this. The problem is that, as already mentioned, I've been posting the chapters as I finished them, and I didn't realize the mistake until a couple of chapters after I'd made it. So in order to fix the mistake, I will need to make major retcons to the story, retcons that would be blatantly obvious to anyone who read the story before the changes. Basically, the question is: Do I bite the bullet and rewrite what I've already posted, or do I go forward with a story that I know is flawed? Thoughts? Considerations?