the WIP I'm thinking of doing is a monster. 4 chapters out of 12 have been published so far, at roughly 50k words. I'm hoping to maybe publish one more chapter before this challenge starts.

there are a fair number of people who have already subscribed to it and are waiting for more chapters. Do I have to not publish anything else from it between April 14 and July 11? because

a) I'm worried that if I don't publish any new chapters between April 14 and July 11, subscribers will have forgotten my WIP/stop caring about it
b) I'm worried that if I publish the entire remainder of the WIP on my posting date, which will be several chapters, I'll be squandering my best way to promote the work, which is by publishing the chapters separately and having the work at the top of the Ao3 list of works in the fandom. it is a small fandom and mine is a rarepair so this is basically the only way I get people to see it

If there is a hard and fast rule that I can't publish anything from it bewteen April 14 and July 11, I understand and I'll try to find some other WIP to use for it. But I'd really, really like to use this for this particular WIP cause it's been eating me alive for months