How to Properly Upload a Chapter to Ao3

Introduction

This tutorial volition guide you lot through the Postal service New Work course on Archive of Our Ain (AO3) stride by step, and assumes you take no prior knowledge of posting a work on AO3. It too assumes you're accessing the site in the default peel; delight make allowances if your site customization is different.

If your work is already online at another site, y'all may prefer to import it. Note that the success of the import function largely depends on the originating site and its compatibility with AO3; we are currently unable to import from several sites.

You can find more information on posting, editing, and importing works at the Posting and Editing FAQ.

Please note: We strongly encourage you to compose your work off the site in a word processor or other program and then postal service it on AO3 once information technology's ready. There is no auto-relieve function while you lot are working in this page, and AO3 drafts are deleted one month afterwards their creation date. Deleted drafts cannot exist recovered.

To learn more nigh drafts and how they piece of work on AO3, please refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ.

Virtually the New Work Page

Get to the Mail service carte du jour and choose "New Work". This is located at the tiptop right of the screen side by side to your user proper name.

This takes you to the New Work page, where you can add together your work's content and other information. Required fields are marked with an asterisk and reddish text in the field headings.

If you take a typhoon saved, an option to "Restore From Last Unposted Draft?" will appear equally a button at the top of the folio. Selecting this will close the current New Work folio and open up the Edit Piece of work page for the last typhoon you lot saved. To learn more nigh drafts and how they work on AO3, delight refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ.

Most of the options take a blue question mark symbol beside them ? , which brings up a assist pop-up with additional data.

Inbound Tag Information

We utilize tags for the bulk of the information (metadata) attached to works. Category, Warnings, Rating, Fandoms, Characters, Relationships, and Additional Tags are all types of tags. For more than data near tags please refer to the Tags FAQ.

Some fields will be autocompleting fields. That ways you tin can start entering the tag and a list of suggestions will come up. Just approved tags— that is, tags that have been marked "mutual" by AO3's tag wranglers—volition appear. If you desire to create a new tag, you can ignore the autocomplete suggestions and type the name out in full. Make sure yous press Enter or insert a comma after each tag. Y'all can repeat this process until you accept all desired tags listed.

Users of AO3 may utilize this information to aid them discover works of interest to them, so filling these fields out as accurately and completely as possible volition help ensure that other users find your work.

Rating (required)

Select the rating which you believe all-time applies to your work (or select "Not Rated").

Ratings measure the intensity of a work'due south content and requite users an idea of the suitability of the work for them. Ratings and warnings tin attract users who are seeking specific content, and they tin can also warn off users who are trying to avoid that content. Considering fanworks may bargain with controversial and painful issues, we encourage creators to choose ratings and warnings that help users brand decisions about the works they admission.

The ratings and their definitions are as follows:

Not Rated

This is the default pick. For searching, screening, and other Archive functions, this may get treated the same mode as mature and explicit-rated content. Cull this rating if yous prefer non to rate your content.

General Audiences

The content is unlikely to be disturbing to anyone, and is suitable for all ages.

Teen And Upward Audiences

The content may be inappropriate for audiences under 13.

Mature

The content contains adult themes (sex, violence, etc) that aren't as graphic as explicit-rated content.

Explicit

The content contains explicit developed themes, such equally porn, graphic violence, etc.

A user accessing a "Not Rated", "Mature" or "Explicit" rated piece of work volition receive a warning (unless they have disabled it in their preferences) to propose them that the work may incorporate adult content. Y'all can refer to How can I turn off the confirmation to access adult content? regarding this choice.

For more information well-nigh ratings on AO3, visit the Terms of Service FAQ - Ratings and Warnings.

Archive Warnings (required)

Select whatever warning(due south) which you believe apply to your work, or "No Archive Warnings Utilize", or "Choose Not To Utilise Archive Warnings". You can make multiple selections. Fanworks may bargain with controversial and painful problems; therefore, we encourage creators to choose ratings and warnings that help users brand decisions about the works they access.

AO3 requires that creators either warn for—or explicitly choose not to warn for—a short list of common warnings: Major Grapheme Expiry, Underage, Rape/Not-Con, and Graphic Depictions of Violence. Nosotros've too provided options to warn for additional content or to not warn for content at all.

The warnings and their definitions are every bit follows:

Cull Not To Utilise Archive Warnings

Utilize this if warnings may apply only you don't want to employ them.

No Archive Warnings Utilise

Use this if AO3 warnings don't apply to your content (in other words, if information technology contains no graphic depictions of violence, major grapheme death, rape/non-con, or underage sexual practice).

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

This is for gory, graphic, explicitly described violence. Exactly where to depict the line is your telephone call.

Major Grapheme Death

Please use your best judgment most who counts every bit a major graphic symbol.

Rape/Non-Con

Again, this is your call. If you think your content is borderline non-consensual, simply yous don't experience like using this warning (or you're not sure if you should), you lot ever accept the choice of using "Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings" instead.

Underage

This is for descriptions or depictions of sex activity by characters under the historic period of eighteen (this doesn't include dating action like kissing or vague references with no bodily description/delineation). This generally applies to humans; if you are writing porn about space aliens who just alive for a month or thousand year-old vampires with sixteen year-old bodies, please merely use your best judgment. You are always gratis to specify characters' ages or to utilise "Choose Not to Use Annal Warnings".

You tin can apply the Additional Tags field to give other or more detailed warnings (this will be covered in more detail further on in the tutorial).

Our policies regarding warnings can be found in the Terms of Service and Terms of Service FAQ.

Fandoms (required)

Enter the proper noun(s) of the fandom(southward) to which your work belongs. Full names, rather than abbreviations, are preferred to avoid ambiguity.

This is an autocompleting field. Annotation that if yous create a fandom tag, it may not bear witness up in the fandoms folio for a few days.

You lot tin mail works on the Archive that don't relate to specific fandoms. For more data, delight refer to Tin I archive original fiction? in the Terms of Service. You can mail service these types of works using the "Original Piece of work" fandom tag.

For more information on fandom (and other) tags, please refer to the Tags FAQ or When will you remove a fandom tag? in the Terms of Service FAQ.

Category

Choose ane or more categories for the romantic and/or sexual relationship(s) your work includes (if whatsoever) from the list.

There are six categories of works on AO3. An estimation of the abbreviations is beneath; withal, the exact definitions of these vary from fandom to fandom and fan to fan. Use whichever you lot feel are applicable, or else none:

F/F

Female person/Female relationships.

F/M

Female/Male relationships.

Gen

General: no romantic or sexual relationships, or relationships which are not the main focus of the work.

1000/M

Male/Male person relationships.

Multi

More one kind of relationship, or a relationship with multiple partners.

Other

Other relationships.

Relationships

List the main relationship(due south) in your work. These can be any type of human relationship, not just romantic or sexual. A romantic and/or sexual relationship is indicated by using a slash ("/") separator (for example, "Chidi Anagonye/Eleanor Shellstrop"). Nonsexual, non-romantic relationships–such every bit platonic relationships between friends, family unit, teammates, etc.–are indicated with an "&" separator (for example "Alphonse Elric & Edward Elric").

Full names are preferred where possible to avoid ambiguity. Please note that each relationship tag must be 100 characters or less; if your work contains a human relationship involving six or more than characters, you may desire to use first names or nicknames only to avoid going over the graphic symbol limit.

This is an autocompleting field. For more information on relationship (and other) tags, please refer to the Tags FAQ.

Characters

Here you tin list the main character(s) in your work. Full names (personal proper noun and family unit name) are preferred to avert ambiguity. If you are including original characters, you can choose to use the existing tags for those—just start entering "original character" for a list.

This is an autocompleting field. For more information on character (and other) tags, please refer to the Tags FAQ.

Additional Tags

Here you can include any other tags you lot desire to requite your work. Y'all may too utilise this field to warn for things not covered past Archive Warnings. Please exercise not enter fandoms, relationships, or grapheme names in this field, unless you're including actress information about them (for instance "Female person Sherlock Holmes" or "Pocket-sized Haku/Ogino Chihiro").

Additional Tags are an important tool for users to find works which interest them (e.g. in item genres or tropes, or that deal with detail bug). To reach the maximum number of interested users with your work, it'south worth taking the fourth dimension to tag accurately and informatively. However, it's entirely up to you how much (or how little) yous tag your work and what y'all include.

There are no limitations every bit to what tin exist entered as an Additional Tag, so you tin use information technology in whatever style seems advisable for your work and/or fandom. You can help users understand the genres or tropes your work includes (for instance, angst, fluff and angst, sense of humor, coming out, BDSM, public sexual activity). If you take taken canon characters from your fandom and put them into a different environment, you tin can permit users know this by tagging it as an Alternating Universe work (some AU tropes take existing approved tags, such as omegaverse). If your piece of work is a crossover or fusion, information technology can be useful to include those tags here. You lot tin can listing kinks included in your work, the time menstruum of your piece of work...the listing goes on.

If you're unsure about what to put hither, try browsing your fandom to find out what tags other creators accept used. You tin always edit the work later to change or add together to your tags.

This is an autocompleting field. For more than information, please refer to the Tags FAQ.

Piece of work Title (required)

Enter the title of your work. This can be anything, up to 255 characters of unformatted text. Y'all cannot utilise HTML or CSS formatting in this field.

Add together co-authors?

If y'all've created the work with others, y'all tin check this box and and then enter their pseud(s). You tin only add an existing AO3 business relationship holder every bit a co-creator. This is not the place to credit beta readers; mutual practice is to utilize the Notes for that.

One time added, a co-creator is able to edit chapters they are credited on, delete the piece of work, or add it to their series.

Please note that in one case a co-creator is added, you cannot remove them from the work and nosotros are unable to do it for you. They take to do that themselves. Therefore, please ensure you are adding the correct person and not someone with a like pseud.

Summary

Enter a summary of your work. This is a fleck like the blurb you find on the back of a book jacket or DVD. You can use it to let people know what they can expect from your work and go them interested.

If you're unsure how to summarize your work, yous can scan other works on AO3 for ideas. A summary is not required, then you lot can choose non to include ane if you prefer.

Notes

You lot tin include any additional data you'd similar in the Notes section. Notes can be added to the starting time and/or end of your work, or to individual chapters.

Some examples of Notes could be:

• to explain why you've created the work (due east.g. a prompt).
• to thank people who've helped you (e.g. betas).
• a message to users post-obit your piece of work (eastward.yard. when y'all plan to mail updates to a WIP).
• content warnings which oasis't been included in the tags only which you'd like to mention.
• anything else you'd like people to know about your piece of work that hasn't been indicated in the summary or tags.

Does this fulfill a challenge assignment?

If you take an open assignment, this option will appear on the Mail service New Piece of work folio.

To fulfill your assignment, cheque its "Claiming/Gift Exchange Assignment" checkbox. Once your work is posted, the following volition occur:

• your assignment volition be marked as complete.
• the work volition exist gifted to the relevant user (in the case of gift exchanges).
• your work volition be added to the collection.

Mail to Collections / Challenges

If yous created the work as role of a collection or claiming, here is where y'all specify that. If yous've used the Challenge Assignment checkbox, you don't need to complete this section. This is an autocompleting field. Notation that you cannot create a new collection from this page.

If the challenge is a gift substitution, you can also enter the name of the recipient of your work in the "Gift this work to" field. If the collection yous are adding your work to is anonymous and/or unrevealed, adding your work to information technology will anonymize you as the creator and/or hibernate your work from all users except yourself and the collection moderator(s) until the drove is revealed. Please exist aware of this when adding your piece of work to collections.

Please refer to the Collections FAQ for more information.

Gift this work to

If you created the piece of work every bit a gift, or as office of a gift exchange, you tin enter the recipient'south pseud(south) here. If yous take used the Challenge Assignment checkbox, you don't demand to complete this section.

Recipients don't need to have an Archive account, only the gifted work can be linked to an Archive account if they do accept one. To link a gifted piece of work to an Archive account, yous can start entering the recipient'south proper name and a list of pseuds for Archive account holders will come up. Select the person you're gifting your piece of work to. If there is a list of similar pseuds, it's important to ensure you select the right one. Works can be gifted to multiple recipients.

If you've accidentally gifted the work to the wrong account or pseud, you tin can remove the recipient through the Edit Work page by clicking on the ruby (×) next to their proper noun. Then yous can enter the correct name or pseud and select the "Update" button to take the recipient inverse.

For recipients who don't have an Archive account, yous can enter their pseud or name in full. However, please ensure the pseud or proper name does not belong to an Archive account holder. If it does, you will need to differentiate it in some way, or the work will exist gifted to the AO3 account.

This piece of work is a remix, a translation, a podfic, or was inspired by another piece of work

Cheque this checkbox if you lot created your work based on another work, and so fill in the details.

• URL - enter the URL of the source piece of work. If the piece of work is on AO3, the URL is the merely detail you need to fill in—unless you're posting a translation, in which instance you'll besides demand to check that checkbox.
• Title - enter the Title of the source work, if it's non posted on AO3.
• Writer - enter the pseud or name of the person who created the source work, if it'southward not posted on AO3.
• Linguistic communication - enter the linguistic communication of the source work, if it's not posted on AO3. You will fix the language of your work farther down the folio.
• Translation - if your work is a translation of the source work, check the checkbox here.

This piece of work is part of a series

Check this checkbox if your work is part of a new or existing series. You can just add works to a series if yous are the owner or co-owner. To add the work to an existing series, select it from the "Choose i of your existing serial" bill of fare list. To create a new serial, enter the name of the serial in the field labelled "Or create and utilise a new one".

To add the piece of work to some other person'south serial (e.g. a co-creator) they'll demand to have made you a co-author of the serial.

For more data on Series on AO3, please refer to the Serial FAQ.

This work has multiple chapters

Cheque this checkbox if your work will incorporate multiple capacity. If you already know how many chapters there will be, yous can supplant the default question mark with the chapter total. You tin can likewise enter a unique championship for your chapter, but this is not required. If you don't enter a affiliate title, the default title will be each chapter'due south number (eastward.thousand. "Chapter ii"). If you enter a title for Chapter 1, it won't appear on the piece of work until you have at least two chapters.

You can add chapters to your work once it's posted by opening your work and selecting the "Add Chapter" button. You lot can also become to it from the Works page on your Dashboard.

For more than data on multiple chapter works, please refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ.

Set a different publication date

Check this checkbox if you'd like to backdate your work, then select the solar day, month, and twelvemonth of publication. This can be useful if yous are reposting a work that was previously posted elsewhere and you lot'd like to have the work on AO3 reflect the original posting date.

Notation that you can't set a publication date in the future.

A piece of work with a backdated publishing appointment will still show upward in RSS feeds as a newly posted work, merely will not appear at the meridian of index pages with the default (engagement updated) sort gild (east.g the results page when browsing or searching for works).

Choose a language

Select the language of your work via the bill of fare list. English is selected past default. If your language is not on the listing, please contact Support and allow us know.

Select Work Skin

Yous tin create a piece of work skin to change the appearance of your work. The Annal of Our Ain (AO3) just accepts a select list of HTML tags, and then work skins allow you lot have greater control over the appearance of your work. For example, y'all may wish to apply font colors to point which graphic symbol is speaking, writing, or texting, or to indent sure parts of your work. Delight refer to the Skins and Archive Interface FAQ or the Tutorial: Styling Works for more information on creating a work skin.

There are also two Public Work Skins which you can choose here—the Bones Formatting peel and the Homestuck peel.

Select the pare you want to utilise from the menu listing.

Privacy

• Only prove your work to registered users - check this checkbox to only allow users logged in to AO3 to access your work.
• Disable anonymous commenting - cheque this to forestall comments from users who are not logged in. This option however allows guests to access the work and leave kudos.
• Enable comment moderation - check this to moderate comments on your work. That means yous volition have to corroborate all comments before they appear publicly. Refer to Releases 0.nine.87 - 0.ix.91: Change Log (Annotate moderation released!) for farther information on annotate moderation.

Input the Work

It's not nevertheless possible to host videos, images or audio files on AO3, but you can embed works hosted elsewhere. If you are posting a video, prototype, or audio work, please refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ for details on how to embed this media.

Hither you lot accept two input types in the Work Text field—y'all tin either enter your work in plain text and utilize express HTML tagging (default option) or you can select the Rich Text button to enter preformatted text.

Please note: We strongly encourage you to compose your work off the site in a discussion processor or relevant program, and then post it on AO3 in one case it's ready. In that location is no motorcar-save function while you're working in this folio, and works saved as drafts are deleted a month afterward their creation date. Deleted drafts cannot be recovered.

To learn more most drafts and how they work on AO3, delight refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ.

Using HTML

The HTML editor allows yous to marker up your text with HTML tags. For more elaborate styling, you will need to use a "Work Skin", which is basically custom CSS. Please refer to the Tutorial: Styling Works for more data on creating a Work Skin.

Allowed HTML

a, abbr, acronym, address, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, cite, code, col, colgroup, dd, del, dfn, div, dl, dt, em, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, img, ins, kbd, li, ol, p, pre, q, s, samp, modest, span, strike, potent, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, var.

How do nosotros format your HTML?

When you enter HTML into the Work Text field, we do some cleanup on information technology to make sure that it's safe (to prevent spammers and hackers from uploading malicious code). Nosotros also exercise some bones formatting both for your convenience and for accessibility reasons.

To preview the results of our formatting and correct any mistakes, yous can select the "Rich Text" button and so "HTML". You tin also choose "Preview" and and then "Edit" to render to this page—these buttons tin be found at the bottom of the page.

Please note that the all-time manner to get skillful results is to put in good HTML—that's how yous tin be certain your piece of work will exist formatted correctly beyond diverse browsers, screen readers, mobile devices, and downloads.

For more than information on using HTML and the formatting nosotros do for you lot, please become to the HTML Aid page.

Using the Rich Text Editor

The exact behavior of the Rich Text Editor (RTE) depends on your device, browser, and operating system, every bit well as the source y'all're pasting from. However, starting with a well-formatted document volition help.

For more data on getting the most out of the RTE, pasting from specific text editors, and pasting specific types of formatting delight refer to the RTE Help page.

There are a couple of problems with pasting from some common word processing programs that nosotros are aware of. Please visit the Known Issues page for further detail on this.

Posting the Work

In one case you're happy with the formatting of your work and the options yous've selected, you can preview how your work will appear by selecting the "Preview" button in the Post section of the page (beneath the work). When yous preview the work, you'll likewise get the option to relieve it equally a draft. You lot can post your work without previewing it by selecting "Mail Without Preview"; nonetheless, it is recommended that you preview it first, peculiarly if this is your first fourth dimension posting on AO3.

There is also a "Cancel" push button located in the Post department; please notation that if you lot select "Cancel" and you accept non saved the draft, y'all will lose all work on this folio and it cannot be recovered.

To brand changes, select the "Edit" button. To save your piece of work equally a draft and come back to it afterwards, select "Salve Without Posting". One time yous're happy with the preview, select the "Post" button below and your piece of work will be posted on AO3 for people to relish.

Please note: Unposted drafts are automatically deleted from AO3 1 calendar month from the date they're created. Therefore, we strongly encourage y'all to compose your work off the site in a word processor or other plan, and and then post it on AO3 once it's consummate. Deleted drafts cannot be recovered.

To learn more most drafts and how they work on AO3, delight refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ.

Happy posting!

Where tin I get more information if my question isn't answered hither?

For more information on Posting and Editing Works, refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ. Some other frequently asked questions about the Archive are answered in other sections of the Archive FAQ, and some common terminology is defined in our Glossary. Questions and answers about our Terms of Service can exist found in the Terms of Service FAQ. You may also like to bank check out our Known Issues. If you need more than help, please submit a Support request.

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