#a cabin

Geraldine!!! my dear!!!! I’m so sorry this took so long to respond to, I’ve been criminally short of time. literally, I’ve been so busy robbing banks, it’s kept my schedule quite chock-full.

I don’t know whether you’ve taken the plunge already with your fic and decided what you want to do with it, but I can offer general advice for the future, either way?

the benefits of posting as a whole are as follows: your work is complete, so it will likely get more immediate attention - as a reader, I trust a finished fic to be completed! no abandoned works here! the cons, though, are that the fic sinks further down the AO3 update list quickly, which means it’s less likely the browsing reader will come across it and click.

the pros and cons of posting serially are pretty much the same, but reversed. you get less immediate attention, perhaps - but continually updating the fic pushes it back up to the top on AO3, and so encourages more hits :o

both sets of problems are possible to remedy!! in the first instance, with posting as a whole, you can promo your work where you can - on your blog, submitting to fic recs, etc. (for readers, by the way, this is one of the reasons why it’s super lovely to send asks on tumblr to your fave fic’s author - then they have the opportunity to publish the ask and talk about their fic publicly if they want to, which might catch people’s interest - and those people might go and read the fic!! like, the main reason it’s lovely is because OMG U LIKED!! THE FIC OMG AHSDUASD HEART MELTING BREATH STOPPED EXHILARATION MAXIMUM, but that is another reason hahaha.) also, you can keep uploading other works to your AO3, and the readers of those fics might click on your name and check out what else you’ve written.

in the second instance, with the serial posting, the solution is pretty much - patience, so far as I can see!! the hits will come. you just have to wait for them.