Cant Upload Chapter on Archive of Our Own

Introduction

This tutorial volition guide you through the Post New Work form on Archive of Our Own (AO3) step by step, and assumes yous have no prior noesis of posting a work on AO3. It also assumes you're accessing the site in the default skin; please brand allowances if your site customization is different.

If your work is already online at another site, yous 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.

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

Please note: We strongly encourage you lot to compose your work off the site in a give-and-take processor or other program and then post it on AO3 once it's ready. At that place is no auto-salve part while you are working in this page, and AO3 drafts are deleted i month after their cosmos date. Deleted drafts cannot be recovered.

To larn more about drafts and how they work on AO3, please refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ.

About the New Piece of work Page

Go to the Post menu and choose "New Piece of work". This is located at the pinnacle right of the screen next to your user proper name.

screenshot of the Post New Work menu item

This takes you to the New Work folio, where y'all tin add your work'southward content and other information. Required fields are marked with an asterisk and cherry-red text in the field headings.

If you have a typhoon saved, an option to "Restore From Final Unposted Draft?" will appear equally a button at the pinnacle of the page. Selecting this will close the current New Work folio and open the Edit Work folio for the last draft y'all saved. To learn more about drafts and how they piece of work on AO3, delight refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ.

Most of the options accept a blue question mark symbol beside them ? , which brings up a aid pop-upward with additional information.

Entering Tag Information

We use tags for the majority of the data (metadata) fastened to works. Category, Warnings, Rating, Fandoms, Characters, Relationships, and Boosted Tags are all types of tags. For more information about tags please refer to the Tags FAQ.

Some fields will be autocompleting fields. That means you lot can start entering the tag and a list of suggestions volition come. Only canonical tags— that is, tags that have been marked "common" past AO3's tag wranglers—will appear. If you desire to create a new tag, you lot can ignore the autocomplete suggestions and type the name out in full. Make sure yous printing Enter or insert a comma after each tag. Y'all tin can repeat this procedure until yous have all desired tags listed.

Users of AO3 may use this information to assist them find works of interest to them, so filling these fields out as accurately and completely every bit possible volition help ensure that other users detect your work.

Rating (required)

Select the rating which you lot believe best applies to your work (or select "Not Rated").

Ratings mensurate the intensity of a work'southward content and give users an thought of the suitability of the work for them. Ratings and warnings can concenter users who are seeking specific content, and they tin too warn off users who are trying to avoid that content. Considering fanworks may bargain with controversial and painful problems, nosotros 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 option. For searching, screening, and other Archive functions, this may get treated the same fashion as mature and explicit-rated content. Choose this rating if you prefer non to charge per unit your content.
Full general Audiences: The content is unlikely to be agonizing to anyone, and is suitable for all ages.
Teen And Up Audiences: The content may exist inappropriate for audiences under 13.
Mature: The content contains adult themes (sex activity, violence, etc) that aren't as graphic every bit explicit-rated content.
Explicit: The content contains explicit adult themes, such every bit 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 advise them that the work may contain adult content. You can refer to How can I turn off the confirmation to admission developed content? regarding this option.

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

Archive Warnings (required)

Select any warning(southward) which you believe utilise to your work, or "No Archive Warnings Apply", or "Choose Non To Use Annal Warnings". You can make multiple selections. Fanworks may deal with controversial and painful issues; therefore, nosotros encourage creators to choose ratings and warnings that assistance users make decisions most the works they access.

AO3 requires that creators either warn for—or explicitly choose non to warn for—a short listing of common warnings: Major Graphic symbol Death, Underage, Rape/Non-Con, and Graphic Depictions of Violence. We've as well provided options to warn for additional content or to not warn for content at all.

The warnings and their definitions are as follows:

Choose Non To Utilise Archive Warnings: Use this if warnings may utilize but y'all don't want to use them.
No Archive Warnings Apply: Utilize this if AO3 warnings don't apply to your content (in other words, if information technology contains no graphic depictions of violence, major graphic symbol death, rape/non-con, or underage sexual activeness).
Graphic Depictions Of Violence: This is for gory, graphic, explicitly described violence. Exactly where to draw the line is your call.
Major Character Death: Please use your best judgment about who counts equally a major character.
Rape/Not-Con: Again, this is your call. If you think your content is borderline non-consensual, but you don't feel like using this alarm (or y'all're not certain if you should), you always have the option of using "Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings" instead.
Underage: This is for descriptions or depictions of sexual activity by characters under the historic period of eighteen (this doesn't include dating activity similar kissing or vague references with no actual description/depiction). This generally applies to humans; if yous are writing porn about space aliens who only live for a calendar month or m year-old vampires with sixteen year-old bodies, please only use your best judgment. Y'all are always free to specify characters' ages or to utilize "Choose Non to Utilise Archive Warnings".

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

Our policies regarding warnings tin exist found in the Terms of Service and Terms of Service FAQ.

Fandoms (required)

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

This is an autocompleting field. Note that if you create a fandom tag, it may not show up in the fandoms page for a few days.

You can postal service works on the Archive that don't relate to specific fandoms. For more than information, please refer to Tin I annal original fiction? in the Terms of Service. You can post these types of works using the "Original Piece of work" fandom tag.

screenshot of the fandom autocompleting field in practice

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

Relationships

List the main human relationship(southward) in your work. These can be any type of 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 as platonic relationships between friends, family, teammates, etc.–are indicated with an "&" separator (for instance "Alphonse Elric & Edward Elric").

Total names are preferred where possible to avert ambiguity. Please annotation that each relationship tag must exist 100 characters or less; if your work contains a relationship involving six or more characters, y'all may want to utilize 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.

screenshot of the relationships autocompleting field in practice

Characters

Here you can list the main grapheme(southward) in your work. Full names (personal name and family name) are preferred to avert ambiguity. If y'all are including original characters, you can choose to use the existing tags for those—simply commencement entering "original character" for a list.

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

screenshot of the characters autocompleting field in practice

Additional Tags

Here yous can include any other tags you want to give your work. Yous may likewise use this field to warn for things not covered by Archive Warnings. Delight practise not enter fandoms, relationships, or character names in this field, unless you lot're including actress information about them (for example "Female Sherlock Holmes" or "Small Haku/Ogino Chihiro").

Boosted Tags are an of import tool for users to notice works which involvement them (east.g. in particular genres or tropes, or that deal with particular issues). To accomplish the maximum number of interested users with your work, it's worth taking the time to tag accurately and informatively. However, information technology'south entirely up to you lot how much (or how little) y'all tag your work and what y'all include.

There are no limitations as to what tin can be entered equally an Additional Tag, so you can use it in any way seems advisable for your piece of work and/or fandom. You tin can help users understand the genres or tropes your work includes (for case, malaise, fluff and angst, humor, coming out, BDSM, public sex). If you have taken canon characters from your fandom and put them into a different environment, y'all tin let users know this by tagging it as an Alternating Universe work (some AU tropes have existing canonical tags, such every bit omegaverse). If your work is a crossover or fusion, it can be useful to include those tags hither. You lot can listing kinks included in your work, the time menses of your work...the list goes on.

If y'all're unsure most what to put here, try browsing your fandom to find out what tags other creators have used. You lot can always edit the work after to change or add to your tags.

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

screenshot of the additional tags autocompleting field in practice

Piece of work Title (required)

Enter the championship of your work. This can be annihilation, upwards to 255 characters of unformatted text. You cannot utilize HTML or CSS formatting in this field.

Add co-authors?

If you lot've created the work with others, you tin check this box and and then enter their pseud(s). You tin can but add together an existing AO3 account holder as a co-creator. This is not the place to credit beta readers; common do is to use the Notes for that.

Once added, a co-creator is able to edit chapters they are credited on, delete the work, or add together information technology to their series.

Delight note that in one case a co-creator is added, you lot cannot remove them from the work and we are unable to practise it for you. They accept to do that themselves. Therefore, delight ensure you are adding the correct person and not someone with a similar 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. Y'all can utilise it to let people know what they can expect from your piece of work and get them interested.

If you're unsure how to summarize your piece of work, you lot can browse other works on AO3 for ideas. A summary is not required, and then you can cull not to include one if you lot prefer.

Notes

You can include any boosted information you'd like in the Notes department. Notes tin can be added to the beginning and/or end of your work, or to individual chapters.

Some examples of Notes could be:

to explain why you've created the piece of work (due east.chiliad. a prompt).
to thank people who've helped y'all (eastward.g. betas).
a message to users following your work (east.yard. when y'all plan to postal service updates to a WIP).
content warnings which haven't been included in the tags but which you lot'd like to mention.
annihilation 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 claiming assignment?

If you have an open consignment, this option will appear on the Post New Work page.

To fulfill your assignment, check its "Challenge/Gift Substitution Assignment" checkbox. Once your work is posted, the following volition occur:

your consignment will exist 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 drove.

Post to Collections / Challenges

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

If the challenge is a gift exchange, y'all can also enter the name of the recipient of your work in the "Souvenir this piece of work to" field. If the collection you are adding your work to is anonymous and/or unrevealed, adding your work to it will anonymize yous every bit the creator and/or hibernate your work from all users except yourself and the collection moderator(s) until the collection is revealed. Delight exist enlightened of this when adding your work to collections.

Please refer to the Collections FAQ for more information.

Gift this piece of work to

If you created the work as a gift, or as part of a souvenir exchange, yous can enter the recipient's pseud(due south) here. If you have used the Challenge Assignment checkbox, you don't need to consummate this section.

Recipients don't need to take an Annal account, but the gifted work tin can exist linked to an Archive account if they do have one. To link a gifted piece of work to an Archive account, you can first entering the recipient's name and a list of pseuds for Archive account holders will come up upward. Select the person you're gifting your work to. If in that location is a list of like pseuds, it's important to ensure you select the correct one. Works can exist gifted to multiple recipients.

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

For recipients who don't have an Archive business relationship, y'all tin can enter their pseud or name in total. Nevertheless, delight ensure the pseud or name does not belong to an Annal business relationship holder. If it does, you lot volition need to differentiate it in some way, or the work volition exist gifted to the AO3 business relationship.

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

Check this checkbox if you created your work based on another work, and then fill in the details.

URL - enter the URL of the source work. If the work is on AO3, the URL is the but detail you need to fill up in—unless you're posting a translation, in which case you lot'll also need to cheque that checkbox.
Championship - enter the Championship of the source piece of work, if it'south not posted on AO3.
Author - enter the pseud or name of the person who created the source work, if information technology's not posted on AO3.
Language - enter the language of the source piece of work, if information technology's not posted on AO3. You lot will gear up the linguistic communication of your work further down the page.
Translation - if your work is a translation of the source work, check the checkbox here.

This piece of work is part of a serial

Bank check this checkbox if your work is role of a new or existing serial. You can just add works to a series if you lot are the owner or co-owner. To add the piece of work to an existing series, select information technology from the "Choose one of your existing series" card list. To create a new serial, enter the name of the series in the field labelled "Or create and apply a new one".

To add together the work to another person'southward serial (east.g. a co-creator) they'll demand to have fabricated you a co-writer of the series.

For more than information on Series on AO3, please refer to the Series FAQ.

This work has multiple chapters

Check this checkbox if your work will incorporate multiple chapters. If you lot already know how many chapters there volition be, yous can replace the default question mark with the affiliate total. You can likewise enter a unique championship for your chapter, just this is not required. If you don't enter a chapter championship, the default title will be each chapter's number (e.one thousand. "Chapter two"). If y'all enter a championship for Affiliate ane, information technology won't announced on the work until you take at least 2 chapters.

Yous tin can add together chapters to your work one time it's posted by opening your piece of work and selecting the "Add Chapter" push. You can also get to it from the Works folio on your Dashboard.

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

Set a different publication date

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

Notation that yous tin't set a publication appointment in the future.

A work with a backdated publishing engagement will all the same show upwards in RSS feeds as a newly posted piece of work, but volition not announced at the top of index pages with the default (date updated) sort order (eastward.m the results page when browsing or searching for works).

Choose a linguistic communication

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

Select Work Skin

Y'all can create a piece of work skin to alter the appearance of your work. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) only accepts a select list of HTML tags, so work skins let you take greater command over the advent of your work. For example, you may wish to employ font colors to indicate which character is speaking, writing, or texting, or to indent certain parts of your work. Please refer to the Skins and Archive Interface FAQ or the Tutorial: Styling Works for more information on creating a work pare.

There are as well two Public Work Skins which you can choose hither—the Basic Formatting skin and the Homestuck skin.

Select the skin you want to use from the menu list.

Privacy

Simply testify your work to registered users - bank check this checkbox to just let users logged in to AO3 to access your work.
Disable anonymous commenting - bank check this to prevent 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 will have to approve all comments before they announced publicly. Refer to Releases 0.9.87 - 0.ix.91: Modify Log (Annotate moderation released!) for further information on comment moderation.

Input the Work

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

Here you have 2 input types in the Work Text field—you can either enter your piece of work in apparently text and use 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 piece of work off the site in a discussion processor or relevant program, and so post it on AO3 in one case it'south set. There is no automobile-salvage function while you're working in this folio, and works saved as drafts are deleted a month after their creation engagement. Deleted drafts cannot be recovered.

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

Using HTML

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

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, small, bridge, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, var.

How practice we format your HTML?

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

To preview the results of our formatting and correct whatsoever mistakes, you can select the "Rich Text" push and then "HTML". Y'all tin as well choose "Preview" and then "Edit" to return to this page—these buttons can be institute at the bottom of the folio.

Delight note that the best way to get good results is to put in skilful HTML—that'due south how you tin exist certain your piece of work will be formatted correctly across various browsers, screen readers, mobile devices, and downloads.

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

Using the Rich Text Editor

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

For more information on getting the almost 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 bug with pasting from some common word processing programs that we are aware of. Please visit the Known Issues page for farther detail on this.

Posting the Work

Once you're happy with the formatting of your piece of work and the options you've selected, yous tin preview how your work volition announced by selecting the "Preview" button in the Post section of the page (below the piece of work). When you preview the work, you'll besides go the pick to salvage it as a typhoon. Y'all can post your work without previewing it by selecting "Post Without Preview"; however, information technology is recommended that you lot preview it first, particularly if this is your commencement time posting on AO3.

There is also a "Cancel" push located in the Post section; please note that if you select "Abolish" and you have non saved the draft, you volition lose all piece of work on this page and it cannot be recovered.

To make changes, select the "Edit" button. To salve your piece of work as a draft and come up back to it later on, select "Relieve Without Posting". In one case you're happy with the preview, select the "Post" button below and your piece of work volition be posted on AO3 for people to enjoy.

Please annotation: Unposted drafts are automatically deleted from AO3 one calendar month from the engagement they're created. Therefore, we strongly encourage you lot to compose your work off the site in a word processor or other program, and and then post it on AO3 in one case information technology'southward complete. Deleted drafts cannot be recovered.

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

Happy posting!

Where can I go more information if my question isn't answered here?

For more data 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 be found in the Terms of Service FAQ. You may likewise similar to check out our Known Problems. If y'all demand more than help, please submit a Support request.

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