This first book is pretty much done, and I have posted up to the halfway point. But I want to revamp the chapters to give my MC a stronger voice and to improve the world-building. So what should I do? Continue posting the book and then edit the chapters, or go on hiatus and repost. I don't want to frustrate the people already reading.
There was one more obvious change I did for one of the main characters of my Crazy Daughter novel - but it wasn't something that would come up all the time. So I made an author note above the first chapter I've added this specific thing in and noted that I was busy revising the entire novel and one day, it would catch up and align again with the changed version of newer chapters. But that worked, because it was something comparatively minor. Like, one of the people around the MC is from the slums and like me, who has a work mode and a private mode, in which I constantly bicker about anything and everything in my head, I wanted to have her "original way of talking" which was colored by the colloquial slang type language native to the region she had been raised in, to be the voice of her thoughts, which wouldn't show up much in the first place, since the story mostly centers on it's protagonist (who woulda thunk it?)
Anyway, if it's a bigger thing, I would say you should put it on hiatus. Because it could be very jarring, if the changes you are trying to make are too big and just starting the way you want the story to be with a new chapter would cause whip lash in your audience. But if you keep writing the way you do and change it later, it will mean you have to do a lot more editing work later, which could have been prevented, had you already written the newer chapters in the way you wanted them to be. Especially since you can't actually tell how fleshed out things would be at that point, leading to you possibly having to edited every consecutive chapter either way, to iron out the "seam" you are creating once you catch up with the revision starting from chapter one.
I'm not sure if that was written in a way that can be understood, but I'm slightly tired and have two more hours of work ahead of me, so don't expect me to brain a lot.
