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A friend writes and posts in chapters for exactly that, for the rush that hits and comments give, because it gives her the oomph to revise and finish the next chapter.

All I know is that for me, the one time I tried posting serially, I couldn't go back and tweak details of the earlier chapters into place, so there are slight discrepancies that no one else cares about, but bug me.

I don't know that it's objectively a better or worse story; I'm not a judge of quality in my own writing, and won't pretend to be. But I know that story has a disproportionate number of hits/comments/bookmarks and I don't feel they are earned. It's give the little voice in my head that tells me I cheated a foothold. So I won't be doing it again for that reason, more than the little discrepancies. I don't need to hand over ammunition to my imposter syndrome.