Why publish chapters?

[Garmonbozia]

Thanks for your answers. I don't have a problem at all with people posting chapters. I was merely curious as to why authors would chose to do that.

Ah I may have read a little more emotion into what you said than was imparted.

I do agree with you in one respect though. I, too, find it a little difficult to understand the shortness of some chapters/stories that are posted. I can read and enjoy a short story - after all some ideas suit themselves to this style perfectly. To extend them would just be adding filler. But when a complete story takes me 10 minutes to read (and I am by no means a speed reader) then I do feel it to be a little underdone. Chapters that are over in the blink of an eye, and feel more like small codas to a proper chapter, also bewilder me.

I will always post my stories in a serial format, but I will always endeavour to give my readers some bang for their non-existent buck