How many chapters to save up before launching new work?

[MintiLime]

I have been struck by divine inspiration to create a garbage, cliche comedy. How many chapters would be ideal to save up before launching? Or, since it’s just going to be a potato chip story anyhow, should I just do it and sporadically update whenever I feel like it?

 

[Corty]

5 to 10

 

[HelloHound]

I wrote 5 chapters, published 3 and scheduled the other 2 for later so I had enough time to write more chapters before the final chapter's up; though that doesn't always work lol

 

[HungrySheep]

If I don't do at least 10 chapters in advance, I cringe and die. So usually 20.

 

[J_Chemist]

0. Send it. Who needs a backlog when you can live in constant stress of having to make a weekly deadline.

 

[LilRora]

My personal choice is to post 2 or 3 at first in short intervals and have enough to keep posting for at least a month or two afterwards. It usually ends up being 15-20 chapters.

 

[Rhaps]

35, after I finished the first arc and half-way through the second arc.

 

[Sleds]

It depend if you go for a long story and how much you want to release each week. I think having at least one month of stock pile chapters are good. For my story I waited reaching the chapter 100 before starting to publish it.

 

[LORD_SHAXX]

0, full send every time

 

[Seaspecter]

I had 32 but I wasn't sure if I was going to publish my story or not.

 

[placeintime]

I usually do like 30 because you can post it everyday for a month.

 

[Daitengu]

Dunno about as a writer, but as a reader I don't bother with a story unless it's complete or has atleast 20 chapters. There's just a whole lot of stories that get dropped under 20. Generally by that time the author knows if they're going to continue it or not.

 

[MintiLime]

Thank you everyone for your input! I will probably stock up for a month and then publish.

 

[Cipiteca396]

5, posting one every two to four hours to take advantage of 'Newest Releases'. Then one every day for a week.

Best to keep going daily after that, but that requires a huge backlog.

I think the most efficient route is to finish the story and then publish it, lol.

 

[The_3rd_Book]

Sixteen million four hundred twenty-eight thousand seven hundred four.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

I finish an entire volume first, before releasing a new story. And I make sure I planned my stories ahead, so I won't be lost if I took a break from it for a long while.

 

[Sola-sama]

0. Send it. Who needs a backlog when you can live in constant stress of having to make a weekly deadline.

Kindred spirit, where have you been in my life?

 

[Paul_Tromba]

At a minimum of ten but 15-20 most of the time.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

You start at the end and work your way back to the beginning. So all of it.

 

[Temple]

Just publish it. I don't stock chapters before publishing because I'll easily get disinterested. I use the fact that I already uploaded as a motivation to continue. If I stock chapters first, it'll probably take me months to even begin publishing.