Write Away

I have almost no experience with revising (I've edited a total of two short stories for public consumption) but I often realize in the middle of writing that I don't like the direction the story is going in. That's when I stop and ask myself a bunch of questions.

*What do I like about the story and want to keep?
*What is the overarching conflict that takes me from beginning to end?
*If I somehow got to the writing stage and didn't have that, then this is when I figure that out based on the characters and the world
*How does the main character change over the course of the story?

I'm sure there are others but those are the main ones that I can think of off the top of my head.

After I answer these questions I look over the answers and really question how much I like what I came up with. If any of it sounds like I'll be bored writing it then I scrap it and come up with something else.

I don't know if you could do this and come up with something that's not completely different, but if you want to try to do that then you should try to find some things that you like about what you've written and emphasize those parts.