Updates

This a topic very personal to me, due to my experiences as both a reader and an author.

The only thing I can say is to try to follow a set schedule, no matter how small it is like every 2 weeks or even every month. But do it. Should something come up that will take you off the fanfic for a long time, explain it to your readers and that's it. People are understandable if you are understandable.

Instead of many chapters, do a single perfect good one. Quality over quantity. Rare nowadays. High commodity even.

Should you have a long update schedule and a Patreon, you might want to say to your followers what exactly they are getting into, and even warn them to not keep paying you while you don't release new work. If you are not a compassionless capitalistic mercenary, that is.