Write a couple of parts, send to someone you trust to tell you what you are doing wrong and how you can make it better (Tola Odejayi is perfect for that. He helped me with a novel i’m writing) and continue with the corrections in mind.
Never give up on any story, you can pause for weeks, months or even years, but always go back and write it. Every story deserves that and so does every writer.

In the end, I think it is not about the readers so much as yourself. I totally agree with @Kaycee. If you can agree with your story, if you find fulfilment in your piece, keep posting and continue with it… Post…
IT is possible some people might be too busy to check back…
In all, don’t let no one dictate your pace or taste except you…or if you want, a few trusted colleagues. @Lade, nice one… Encouraging words and I am already stealing the critic too!
E go better with us all jor!

Jef,

If at some point you intend to make the story available to a wider audience, then I would say that you should definitely publish it for people to criticise. Remember, you don’t have to accept all the criticism that people give. And as Lade has said, you can certainly privately ask people for their criticism of your work if you feel that by ‘going public’, you could end up being ‘fed to the lions’.

I will say that it’s difficult for me to criticise novel excerpts when they are discontinuous, as the plot becomes difficult to follow. So if you continue, my suggestion would be not to publish random excerpts.

Err…I am with Tola and Kaycee. My advice? Just make sure it doesn’t break too many rules and then share it to critiques n non-critiques alike. See what they say. Critiques r good for editing purposes, but the non-critiques are a good represntation of the general public, and they can give U an idea of how Ur story wilol do out there. I am not talking about only Family and Friends oh, but mostly those faceless individuals we interact with but have never really met on Social Media as well.

Seun!!!!

Ouch! Seun you don’t mess with the french.
@Jef, you ????? lucky we didn’t twist your topic into some other rubbish as we ????? wont.

my bad Seun! It is only 9:25 a.m. in Miami, too early for sarcasm…

Hee hee hee…the interesting thing is that on NS, everything has a way of ending in making me laugh… Seun, kai…no kill me abeg!
Nice to see that almost all of us agree on the same thing because reviewing the comments (except the sarcastic Seun!) put the same view…WRITE !! Post!! Write and Post!
@Kaycee guy, well done…you sure followed this post like it was your egg and you sure wanted to see it hatch! @Jefsaraurmax sup? Glad we could be of help… By the way, what is the meaning of your name? Hmm…

I have advised that the mentioning of kids gets me feeling too old but..them no go hear.
@sueddie, I swear, I don’t lay eggs.

@Kaycee, its allowed! And thanks for letting me know that you really don’t lay eggs because gaskiya, if you didn’t, I might have thought so… hee hee hee… @jefsaraurmax wow! That is much! Pray, please, can you break it down a bit… I must say, lovely mix…I only hope each letter doesn’t stand for one child!