[Discussion] "When's the next update"?

How often do you update your works of fiction online? Do you publish a new chapter immediately when done, or post in bulk?

I am planning on publishing my fanfiction in two parts instead of weekly, but.

I write a new section privately weekly.
50th entry in my private literature place is today!

Most of my multi-chaptered works I get the whole fic done first and tend to have a weekly or bi-weekly schedule. Some were written for big bangs (writer/artist collab) events that required fics to be finished before posting.

Foul Play was the exception and the updates were whenever I get a chapter done and have it beta'd, though I did try to be at least five chapters ahead until recently. I have no more backlog and haven't written new material due to focusing on another fic. In 2019 the average fic update would be about 3 weeks.

My FE3H Big Bang fic I have the whole story completed, just need the final couple chapters looked over by my beta. That one I plan to update two times a week due to how the mods of that event will stop promoting fics in September.

I've always posted in chapters and very irregularly. It's been an eternity since I last updated my fic here on PC... that poor Slowpoke is never going to get his training arc at this rate lmao. I do fully intend to get back into it of course, but it's tricky to allocate time to regularly updating a fic when I have professional writing I have to do and health problems to contend with + my other hobbies taking up space too.

I'll have to get better at it soon though because one of the projects I'm working on will involve regularly writing short stories.

I just cheat and post oneshots.

Kidding...mostly.

I'm currently maintaining two multichapters, strangely enough. One of them updates when I have inspiration (but ideally before end of July) and the other updates bienially every Valentine's Day of an odd-numbered year, so that's be next February next update and then Feb 2025 the next chapter after that.

Somehow, no one has complained about the biennial release schedule.

Hell if I know. I'm the type that can never finish shit, so I end up not even finishing what I write. ;w; I do usually update quite often though, depending what story I'm working on.