My Criminal Minds fanfiction was on a good path until I stopped writing due to a sudden new job. I wrote one chapter, then three more a few months later. I was feeling good about my progress until I realized I was stumped on the actual pairing's progression for the story. So, I decided to write everything over from a certain point and as I'm doing it, I feel like I offended myself with how ridiculous it turned out from where I originally stopped, restarted, and started again.

Has anyone else felt like this? They stopped updating due to certain circumstances, write, but stop because they feel like they've lost the essence of what the story initially was? Then, when looking back, it's like, "What have I done?" because things went off track in an unpleasant way?