Now I've told you a bit about reconsolidating, you might be wondering why it's actually important. Here are a few reasons:
1. Integrity. You want your work to be reflective of you and your ideals and style. If you change too many things, and get rid of what made your story uniquely yours in the first place, you won't be writing your story.
2. Publishers don't always know best. There are no rules that you have to do 100% of the things an editor tells you to. You know what's best for your story and your work as a whole much better than someone else does. If there's something in your work that's really important to you but someone else thinks you should cut it, don't. It might turn out to be the bit that everyone else loves.
3. Writing isn't all about manipulating yourself into a best seller. This very much links back to the first point about integrity. You should write because you love it and because you have something unique to say, not because you know exactly how to pander to the lowest common denominator. Most "classic" authors have more well known work and less well known work, but we don't think any less of them for their other work. If you're constantly trying to please other people, you'll never please yourself.
4. Be confident. If something was important to you at the start and your opinions haven't changed, that's probably for a reason. Everyone has different literary tastes, be confident in your own, and be confident that other people will love it too.
Happy writing!
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