: Re: Not wanting to "spoil" a story due to lack of skill I have a story that is dear to me and that I would very much want to write about. However, I don't have lots of experience in writing

There are plenty of cases of authors rewriting stories. Arthur C. Clarke co-wrote the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his short story "The Sentinel". Piers Anthony wrote a novelization of Total Recall, which was based on Phillip K. Dick's story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". Isaac Asimov turned his novelette "Nightfall" into a novel. The novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes started out as a short story. Agatha Christie had several versions of And Then There Were None, although that is the only title I'm willing to include in my post. The Twilight Zone had several episodes that were redone in different incarnations of the show, such as "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" on the original 60s run being about anti-Communism while the 2003 Twilight Zone had a version of it about anti-terrorism. Battlestar Galactica was reimagined.
And those are some of just the ones we know about. How many stories started out as something else, and only the last version was released?

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