I was just thinking about longer breaks that are accidental. I recall when I got sick for 2 months earlier this year and totally forgot about tapas and updates and writing; it just wasn't on my radar. I ended up being ok because of how far I had scheduled my buffer to release and no my readers, outside of me commenting it in one of my posts, didn't even realize I had been sick and felt so bad about not being there for them!
Right now, I try to keep at least 4 updates up on the schedule to release, in the hope that it spans 2 weeks or 4 weeks so I can kind of forget about the site if I need to. Sites that don't have this automatic updating, like dA, are just subject to my whim. dA especially, since that's my "post here first" place. I can go weeks without an update, sometimes months. It's just all up to how I'm feeling with that chapter, that story, and that moment. Sometimes I get a section done, and think I want to add to it, and am so certain about adding to it, that I realize like 2 months later... I...never... posted...that.... bit. So then I have to post it and slice the chapter or do some other repair on my end. It's actually kind of funny.
I'm sort of thinking of trying to see if there's a way I can adhere to a more manga like release for my writing. 1 chapter every 3 months, is about what I was thinking. That's somewhat realistic for my current style of thought to writing process. Though . . . it might not be very realistic for Tapas. Even if I finish a "section" of a chapter, I don't feel like it's "done" until I get to the end of the chapter. So even if I finished section 1 in the first month, I as the writer, don't feel like it's "done" until the end, potentially 2 months later.