As far as it taking a long time between updates it really depends on what you were doing in that time. A lot of the background(what we don't actually see) work takes the longest time. If you want to do monthly updates that's fine with me. Better than say trying for 2 weeks and working so hard you burn out. Just don't become like Runey with a bunch of sudo-updates for patrons. That guy takes 3-5 months to put out the same content he used to do in a month. So yeah as long as you don't do that, take all the time you need. If you need a week off just say so. I'm really enjoying your game. Just keep doing what your doing.
Sorry for the rant :D