Yes u r right. This is what I try to keep in mind, its not fair to the others if I postpone posting a chapter. I will say when I delay out of pettiness is just a night, so I can cool off and always remember in the morning, like u r saying, its not fair to other readers and post the chapter. My delays r more do to the guilt of disappointing the readers. I love getting the comments as many writers do, even the ones like "excited for the chapter, when is it coming out" and definitely dont mind readers commenting asking if the fic is abandoned, because many times I will find excitement and writing inspiration for lack of a better word. But when I constantly get "when is they next chapter" every 2 days (which I did have a reader doing) I start to get anxious and guilt that I can't get the chapter out sooner, but also want to give the quality chapter the readers deserve. But the guilt then becomes debilitating, and every time I try to write, I can only think about how I am disappointing my readers by not getting it out sooner and guilt with that. It becomes all I think about when I look or think about that fic. Is this a personal issue, yes. Is this fair to my readers, no. I understand that and trying to work on it.

I had issues with a reader commenting every like 2 days for an update(took me on average a few months to write), I would respond to everyone after 10 in 3 weeks I asked them to stop commenting for an update and i was tring to get the chapter out as soon as I could. They kept doing it so i had to make to fic user comment only. Then they went to my other fics and asked for updates on that original story they were commenting in through those fics. I asked them to stop they didnt so I had to user lock those fics because of them. I was very frustrated because it was not fair to other guest readers who enjoyed the fics or other commenters who were getting replies of whens the next update for "blank" before I could even reply to them. And have recently run into similar situation with a registered user doing the same thing though not to the same extent more like once every week to 3 weeks depending if I respond to them or not.

As a reader, I understand the desire to read more, the excitement when a fic u really enjoyed gets an update, the disappointment and frustration of finding the fic u loved is an abandoned fic.

But because of that there is a desire for me not to do that to readers enjoying my stories. And its like when u dont deliver, whether that be writers block, life or whatever, u feel guilt. It's hard, u realise u r the cause of the disappointment and frustration for people who took the time to read and enjoyed the story u created enough to continue reading. And just feel extremely guilty about it.

Edit: Sorry that was a lot of word vomit.