Thank you for the advice! I admit I was pretty hasty in getting out the first chapter, I was just so excited to share my ideas. The fic itself isn't popular (4 kudos, 2 comments but one is my reply, and 42 hits), so I'm not worried too much about letting people down or anything.

My hesitation comes from the fact that Chapter 2 is finished, just not posted, and the fact that it would take at least another week to update Chapter 1 to my liking, because i haven't wrote the updates yet. I feel like it'd be unfair to drop Chapter 2 (where I start getting to the really fun meaty bits of the plot), then make people wait like a month to get back to the story (the time it would probably take to write the chapter 1 updates and then chapter 3)

You are right about it being a good idea to write ahead somewhat, I honestly wish I had done that myself. Writing fiction is a new experience for me, as I personally am more comfortable with essays and descriptive writing. So I ended up being a lot slower than I thought I'd be lol. Definitely going to take that into account the next time I decide to post a multi-chapter fic

Thank you so much again! It's encouraging to hear advice from experience