Chapters as stories or single story for novels?

[Gamblnluck]

I love to read, I'm passionate... If I get into a story. I may read it in one sitting, unable to put it down until finished... A chaptered story removes that option...
If it's that good... I want to finish it at my leisure, not the authors...

My problem is I have a difficult time devoting several hours to sit and read in one session. And I sometimes spend a long time finding my place in the story at the next session. I make the exception for a few authors. (Like Bumblingfool who will only post as a single story.)

One other reason I post as I do (trying for 10 to 12k chapters) is I post using a simple copy and paste from my drafts. I've never done an upload in the 150 submissions I have.

 

[dirk2024]

As @Katie_Mae said, I would suggest your chapters, at an average 4K words each, are on the short side. You probably want to double that. Also my opinion given the lack of ability to bookmark, a single humongous file is a daunting read. I would click out on getting to the bottom of the first page once I saw it had more than 6 or so LitE pages, or roughly 20K words.

I with the site had a bookmark feature. Depending upon my mood, the lack of one does sometimes keep me from reading longer works since I usually don't finish in one read.

 

[Cagivagurl]

My problem is I have a difficult time devoting several hours to sit and read in one session. And I sometimes spend a long time finding my place in the story at the next session. I make the exception for a few authors. (Like Bumblingfool who will only post as a single story.)

One other reason I post as I do (trying for 10 to 12k chapters) is I post using a simple copy and paste from my drafts. I've never done an upload in the 150 submissions I have.

Each to their own.
We are all different. No right or wrong. Merely differences...
If a story is incredibly well written, and it sucks me in. I need to be able to finish it. Not wait for the author to post the next chapter, because if it's days later. I've forgotten about it. You either have to re-read the first chapter again, or try to immerse yourself back into it...
That doesn't work for me... If it's good, I'll read until the end... I need that... Otherwise, why bother. It's like somebody stole the last page, and I'm left hanging... Yeah Nah, not happening. Not for me...
I have posted chaptered series, one that included 17 chapters...
Looking back on it. I see that as a mistake. I've thought of deleting them and reposting as a single story.

Each of us develops our methods...

Cagivagurl

 

[Gamblnluck]

Not wait for the author to post the next chapter, because if it's days later. I've forgotten about it. You either have to re-read the first chapter again, or try to immerse yourself back into it...

I made that argument on feedback to a person who wanted to post 18k submissions a week apart. I told him it would hurt readership. I'd like to be able to sit and read for hours but usually can't.
And I hate reading long six chapters of a story I am loving only to find it incomplete. I have one story incomplete right now. I have notes and ideas how to continue, but I stopped to concentrate on my 63 (soon to be 64)chapter saga. I'll get back to it, because I owe it to myself as much as my readers to finish it.
At my age, I hate the idea that if I dropped dead tomorrow, somebody in the future would say, why the Hell couldn't that bastard have finished the story before he fell over? LOL.
I'd much rather leave behind a body of work that people liked. My family may never know, but I feel I accomplished something.

 

[Cagivagurl]

I made that argument on feedback to a person who wanted to post 18k submissions a week apart. I told him it would hurt readership. I'd like to be able to sit and read for hours but usually can't.
And I hate reading long six chapters of a story I am loving only to find it incomplete. I have one story incomplete right now. I have notes and ideas how to continue, but I stopped to concentrate on my 63 (soon to be 64)chapter saga. I'll get back to it, because I owe it to myself as much as my readers to finish it.
At my age, I hate the idea that if I dropped dead tomorrow, somebody in the future would say, why the Hell couldn't that bastard have finished the story before he fell over? LOL.
I'd much rather leave behind a body of work that people liked. My family may never know, but I feel I accomplished something.

LOL
I've left one story unfinished. It was about 6 chapters in, so about 40,000 words.
Other things took priority, so it remains unfinished. I've had many requests to please finish, but Yeah Nah... I can't go back to it...
That story is why, if I see a thread about releasing chapters. I advise writers to finish the story before posting chapter one...
No hard feelings from readers...

Cagivagurl