I used to write pretty much exclusively serial longfic, which, uh... led to a lot of WIPs hanging around. But. My latest long story, that Good Omens thing? I posted that serially for like three readers, and it was great because their comments motivated me but because it would be going to a much wider audience afterwards, I didn't feel strange about going through at the end and doing a rehaul for continuity and such.

Although I think it also helped that I was posting a lot in a short period of time- updates every other day, kind of thing. It allowed me to keep it all together in my head.