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Introduction

This tutorial will guide you through the Post New Work form on Archive of Our Own (AO3) pace by footstep, and assumes you accept no prior noesis of posting a work on AO3. Information technology also assumes you're accessing the site in the default pare; please make allowances if your site customization is different.

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

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

Please notation: Nosotros strongly encourage you to compose your piece of work off the site in a word processor or other program and then mail it on AO3 once it'south prepare. At that place is no machine-save function while you lot are working in this page, and AO3 drafts are deleted ane calendar month afterwards their cosmos date. Deleted drafts cannot be recovered.

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

About the New Piece of work Page

Become to the Postal service carte and choose "New Work". This is located at the top right of the screen next to your user name.

screenshot of the Post New Work menu item

This takes you to the New Piece of work page, where you tin can add together your piece of work's content and other data. Required fields are marked with an asterisk and ruddy text in the field headings.

If you have a typhoon saved, an option to "Restore From Last Unposted Draft?" will appear as a button at the elevation of the folio. Selecting this will close the electric current New Work page and open the Edit Piece of work folio for the last draft you saved. To learn more than about drafts and how they work on AO3, please refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ.

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

Entering Tag Information

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

Some fields will exist autocompleting fields. That means you can outset inbound the tag and a listing of suggestions will come up upward. But approved tags— that is, tags that have been marked "mutual" past AO3's tag wranglers—will appear. If yous want to create a new tag, you can ignore the autocomplete suggestions and blazon the name out in full. Make sure y'all press Enter or insert a comma after each tag. You lot can echo this process until you lot have all desired tags listed.

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

Rating (required)

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

Ratings measure the intensity of a work's content and give users an idea of the suitability of the piece of work for them. Ratings and warnings can attract users who are seeking specific content, and they can likewise warn off users who are trying to avoid that content. Because fanworks may deal with controversial and painful bug, we encourage creators to cull ratings and warnings that help users brand decisions about the works they access.

The ratings and their definitions are as follows:

Not Rated: This is the default option. For searching, screening, and other Annal functions, this may get treated the same way equally mature and explicit-rated content. Choose this rating if you adopt non to rate your content.
General Audiences: The content is unlikely to be disturbing 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, violence, etc) that aren't as graphic as explicit-rated content.
Explicit: The content contains explicit developed themes, such as porn, graphic violence, etc.

A user accessing a "Not Rated", "Mature" or "Explicit" rated work volition receive a warning (unless they take disabled it in their preferences) to suggest them that the work may contain adult content. You tin can refer to How can I turn off the confirmation to access adult content? regarding this choice.

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

Annal Warnings (required)

Select any warning(s) which you believe apply to your piece of work, or "No Archive Warnings Utilize", or "Cull Not To Use Archive Warnings". You lot can make multiple selections. Fanworks may deal with controversial and painful problems; therefore, nosotros encourage creators to cull ratings and warnings that help users make decisions about the works they access.

AO3 requires that creators either warn for—or explicitly cull non to warn for—a short listing of common warnings: Major Grapheme Decease, Underage, Rape/Non-Con, and Graphic Depictions of Violence. We've as well provided options to warn for additional content or to non warn for content at all.

The warnings and their definitions are every bit follows:

Choose Not To Use Annal Warnings: Use this if warnings may utilise merely y'all don't desire to use them.
No Archive Warnings Use: Use this if AO3 warnings don't apply to your content (in other words, if information technology contains no graphic depictions of violence, major character decease, rape/non-con, or underage sex).
Graphic Depictions Of Violence: This is for gory, graphic, explicitly described violence. Exactly where to draw the line is your call.
Major Grapheme Death: Please use your best judgment virtually who counts as a major character.
Rape/Non-Con: Over again, this is your call. If y'all think your content is borderline non-consensual, but you don't experience like using this warning (or y'all're not certain if yous should), you lot e'er take the option of using "Choose Not to Utilise Annal Warnings" instead.
Underage: This is for descriptions or depictions of sex activity by characters nether the age of eighteen (this doesn't include dating activity similar kissing or vague references with no actual description/depiction). This more often than not applies to humans; if you are writing porn almost space aliens who only alive for a month or thousand year-old vampires with xvi yr-old bodies, please just use your best judgment. You lot are always free to specify characters' ages or to use "Cull Not to Use Archive Warnings".

You can use the Additional Tags field to give other or more detailed warnings (this volition be covered in more item further on in the tutorial).

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

Fandoms (required)

Enter the name(s) 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 lot create a fandom tag, it may not show up in the fandoms page for a few days.

Yous can mail works on the Archive that don't relate to specific fandoms. For more data, please refer to Can I annal original fiction? in the Terms of Service. Y'all tin mail service these types of works using the "Original 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 will yous remove a fandom tag? in the Terms of Service FAQ.

Relationships

Listing the chief relationship(s) in your work. These tin can exist whatsoever type of relationship, non simply 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 ideal relationships between friends, family, 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 relationship involving six or more characters, y'all may want to use first names or nicknames only to avert going over the character limit.

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

screenshot of the relationships autocompleting field in practice

Characters

Here you tin can list the primary character(s) in your work. Full names (personal name and family unit name) are preferred to avoid ambiguity. If you are including original characters, you can cull to employ 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.

screenshot of the characters autocompleting field in practice

Additional Tags

Here you can include whatsoever other tags yous want to give your work. You may also use this field to warn for things not covered by Annal Warnings. Please do not enter fandoms, relationships, or character names in this field, unless you're including extra information most them (for instance "Female Sherlock Holmes" or "Minor Haku/Ogino Chihiro").

Boosted Tags are an of import tool for users to find works which involvement them (e.one thousand. in detail genres or tropes, or that deal with item issues). To reach the maximum number of interested users with your work, it's worth taking the time to tag accurately and informatively. However, information technology's entirely up to you how much (or how little) you tag your work and what yous include.

There are no limitations equally to what can exist entered as an Additional Tag, so you lot can use information technology in whatever mode seems advisable for your work and/or fandom. Y'all can help users understand the genres or tropes your work includes (for instance, malaise, fluff and malaise, humor, coming out, BDSM, public sex). If you lot have taken canon characters from your fandom and put them into a unlike environment, yous tin can let users know this past tagging information technology as an Alternating Universe work (some AU tropes have existing approved tags, such equally omegaverse). If your piece of work is a crossover or fusion, it can be useful to include those tags hither. You can listing kinks included in your work, the time catamenia of your work...the listing goes on.

If yous're unsure most what to put here, endeavour browsing your fandom to find out what tags other creators have used. You can always edit the work later to change or add to your tags.

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

screenshot of the additional tags autocompleting field in practice

Work Title (required)

Enter the title of your work. This can be annihilation, up to 255 characters of unformatted text. You lot cannot use HTML or CSS formatting in this field.

Add co-authors?

If you've created the work with others, y'all can cheque this box and then enter their pseud(south). You can simply add an existing AO3 business relationship holder as a co-creator. This is non the place to credit beta readers; common practice 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 information technology to their series.

Please note that once a co-creator is added, yous cannot remove them from the work and we are unable to practise it for y'all. They take to do that themselves. Therefore, please ensure you are adding the correct person and not someone with a similar pseud.

Summary

Enter a summary of your work. This is a scrap similar the blurb you find on the back of a book jacket or DVD. You can employ information technology to let people know what they tin can expect from your piece of work and get them interested.

If you're unsure how to summarize your work, y'all tin can scan other works on AO3 for ideas. A summary is not required, so you can choose not to include i if yous prefer.

Notes

You can include any additional information you lot'd similar in the Notes section. Notes can be added to the beginning and/or end of your work, or to private chapters.

Some examples of Notes could be:

to explain why you've created the work (e.one thousand. a prompt).
to thank people who've helped you (e.g. betas).
a bulletin to users post-obit your work (e.thousand. when you plan to post updates to a WIP).
content warnings which haven't been included in the tags simply which y'all'd like to mention.
annihilation else you lot'd similar 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 have an open assignment, this option will appear on the Mail New Work page.

To fulfill your assignment, cheque its "Challenge/Gift Commutation Assignment" checkbox. Once your work is posted, the following will occur:

your consignment will be marked as complete.
the work volition exist gifted to the relevant user (in the instance of gift exchanges).
your work will be added to the drove.

Post to Collections / Challenges

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

If the claiming is a gift substitution, you lot tin also enter the proper name of the recipient of your piece of work in the "Gift this piece of work to" field. If the drove yous are adding your work to is bearding and/or unrevealed, adding your work to it will anonymize you every bit the creator and/or hide your work from all users except yourself and the collection moderator(s) until the collection is revealed. Delight be aware of this when calculation your work to collections.

Please refer to the Collections FAQ for more information.

Souvenir this work to

If you created the work as a gift, or equally part of a souvenir commutation, you can enter the recipient's pseud(s) here. If you have used the Claiming Assignment checkbox, you lot don't demand to consummate this section.

Recipients don't demand to take an Archive account, simply the gifted work tin can be linked to an Archive business relationship if they do take one. To link a gifted piece of work to an Archive business relationship, you tin can start entering the recipient's name and a list of pseuds for Annal account holders will come upwards. Select the person you're gifting your work to. If at that place is a listing of similar pseuds, information technology's important to ensure you select the correct i. 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 Piece of work page by clicking on the reddish (×) next to their name. Then you tin can enter the right name or pseud and select the "Update" push button to take the recipient inverse.

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

This work is a remix, a translation, a podfic, or was inspired by some other work

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

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

This piece of work is part of a serial

Cheque this checkbox if your piece of work is role of a new or existing series. You can but add works to a series if you lot are the possessor or co-owner. To add together the piece of work to an existing serial, select information technology from the "Choose 1 of your existing serial" menu listing. To create a new series, enter the name of the series in the field labelled "Or create and utilize a new one".

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

For more than data on Series on AO3, delight refer to the Series FAQ.

This work has multiple chapters

Check this checkbox if your work will contain multiple chapters. If you lot already know how many chapters there will be, you can supervene upon the default question marking with the chapter full. You can too enter a unique title for your chapter, but this is not required. If you don't enter a chapter title, the default title volition exist each affiliate's number (eastward.g. "Chapter two"). If you lot enter a championship for Chapter 1, information technology won't appear on the work until yous have at least 2 chapters.

You can add capacity to your work once information technology's posted by opening your piece of work and selecting the "Add Affiliate" button. You can also go to it from the Works page on your Dashboard.

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

Set a different publication date

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

Note that you tin can't set a publication engagement in the future.

A piece of work with a backdated publishing date will still show up in RSS feeds as a newly posted work, just will not appear at the top of alphabetize pages with the default (appointment updated) sort order (due east.g the results page when browsing or searching for works).

Choose a language

Select the language of your work via the menu list. English is selected by default. If your language is not on the listing, please contact Back up and let the states know.

Select Work Peel

You tin create a piece of work skin to change the appearance of your piece of work. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) only accepts a select listing of HTML tags, so work skins permit you have greater control over the appearance of your work. For example, yous may wish to employ font colors to indicate which character is speaking, writing, or texting, or to indent certain parts of your work. Delight refer to the Skins and Annal Interface FAQ or the Tutorial: Styling Works for more than data on creating a work skin.

There are also two Public Piece of work Skins which y'all can choose here—the Basic Formatting peel and the Homestuck pare.

Select the peel you want to utilize from the bill of fare listing.

Privacy

But prove your work to registered users - check this checkbox to only allow users logged in to AO3 to access your work.
Disable anonymous commenting - check this to prevent comments from users who are not logged in. This option nevertheless allows guests to admission the work and get out kudos.
Enable comment moderation - check this to moderate comments on your work. That means yous will have to approve all comments earlier they appear publicly. Refer to Releases 0.9.87 - 0.9.91: Change Log (Comment moderation released!) for further information on comment moderation.

Input the Piece of work

It'south not yet possible to host videos, images or audio files on AO3, but you can embed works hosted elsewhere. If you are posting a video, image, or audio piece of work, delight refer to the Posting and Editing FAQ for details on how to embed this media.

Here yous have two input types in the Work Text field—you lot can either enter your work in plain text and utilise limited HTML tagging (default option) or you lot tin can select the Rich Text button to enter preformatted text.

Please annotation: We strongly encourage you to etch your work off the site in a word processor or relevant programme, and then post it on AO3 once information technology's fix. In that location is no auto-save role while you're working in this page, and works saved equally drafts are deleted a month after their cosmos date. Deleted drafts cannot be recovered.

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

Using HTML

The HTML editor allows you to mark upwards your text with HTML tags. For more elaborate styling, yous volition need to use a "Work Skin", which is basically custom CSS. Please refer to the Tutorial: Styling Works for more than information on creating a Piece of work Pare.

Immune HTML

a, abbr, acronym, address, b, large, 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-scale, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, thursday, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, var.

How practise we format your HTML?

When y'all enter HTML into the Work Text field, we practice some cleanup on it to make certain that it's safe (to prevent spammers and hackers from uploading malicious code). We also practise some basic formatting both for your convenience and for accessibility reasons.

To preview the results of our formatting and correct whatsoever mistakes, you lot can select the "Rich Text" button and and then "HTML". You can as well choose "Preview" and then "Edit" to return to this page—these buttons can be establish at the bottom of the page.

Delight note that the best manner to get skilful results is to put in good HTML—that's how yous tin be sure your work will be formatted correctly across diverse browsers, screen readers, mobile devices, and downloads.

For more information on using HTML and the formatting we do for you lot, please go to the HTML Assistance page.

Using the Rich Text Editor

The exact behavior of the Rich Text Editor (RTE) depends on your device, browser, and operating organisation, as well as the source you're pasting from. Even so, starting with a well-formatted document will assist.

For more than information on getting the virtually out of the RTE, pasting from specific text editors, and pasting specific types of formatting delight refer to the RTE Help folio.

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

Posting the Work

One time you're happy with the formatting of your work and the options you lot've selected, you can preview how your work will appear past selecting the "Preview" button in the Mail section of the folio (below the work). When you lot preview the work, you'll besides become the choice to salve it every bit a draft. You can post your work without previewing it past selecting "Post Without Preview"; even so, it is recommended that you preview information technology get-go, particularly if this is your first time posting on AO3.

In that location is likewise a "Abolish" push located in the Post section; please note that if you select "Cancel" and you take non saved the typhoon, you will lose all work on this page and it cannot be recovered.

To make changes, select the "Edit" button. To salve your work as a typhoon and come dorsum to information technology after, select "Salve Without Posting". Once you're happy with the preview, select the "Post" button below and your work will be posted on AO3 for people to bask.

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

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

Happy posting!

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

For more than 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 Annal FAQ, and some mutual terminology is defined in our Glossary. Questions and answers about our Terms of Service tin be institute in the Terms of Service FAQ. You may also like to check out our Known Bug. If you need more help, please submit a Support request.

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