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Comment on Educating the Victimby Queenautumn:
“I have a question- well first I love your story- but my question is how do you add pictures to your chapters?”
Reply by OnyxSardonyx:
“Thank you so much for your comment!!
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I’d be happy to show you. Actually, I’m just about to put in the pictures for tonight’s chapter, so I’ll whip up a mini-tutorial and put it on tumblr and link you to it. So watch this space! :D”)
So here it is, my mini-tutorial on how to add pictures.
First of all, go to edit (or write) your chapter. Mine’s already a draft, and on the site it seems to be on HTML by default so switch it to Rich Text first:
The editor will look a little different, and at the top you’ll find this symbol:
If you click that little icon, you’ll have this coming up:
You can’t upload pictures directly on Ao3, so you need a link. We host our pictures on tumblr, which gives our fic a little boost before we publish, so that’s a neat lil bonus. Copy the url from wherever you’ve hosted it, which you do by navigating to the image, right-click, and select “Copy image address” (or something similar if you’re not on Chrome/Windows)
And paste the url for your image into your little window on Ao3. It’ll automatically figure out the dimensions of your image.
For readability I would recommend not having the first (width) dimension of your image be any more than 800px, and keep those proportions constrained!!
And there’s your image! (The same image as before - it’s a gif!)
Now I’m a bit of a fancypants, so I want my images centered. It just looks neater. If you want to do that, you’ll have to go back into the HTML. (You totally don’t need to, this is just a lil bonus.)
Here we are. The line in the code highlighted in red is where your image is. Now what you need to do is find that <p> that’s just before the <img (etc) bit.
Here you need to insert
align=“center”
like so:
And then when you switch back to Rich Text, it looks like this:
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And there you go! Now you can either insert more images, or you can save and preview or publish.
And there you go!
I hope this has been helpful, feel free to reblog this!
i1976 - blu notteI usually post in the evening... but since I live in Italy, MY evening is YOUR (U.S.) morning, LOL
Anyway, I don't think there's a best time to post. If peolpe want to read your story, they'll read it, as soon you post it... or the next week, too.
The BIG difference is posting in a large fandom or in a small one, cause it varies the time your story stays on the first page, and so the possible number of NEW viewers.
I think the most part of people post in the evening, or, at least, people who work during the day. But I don't think it affects the number of new viewers.
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I don't notice so much difference... morning... evening... during the week... during the week-end... the number of my views is constant along the whole week and month after month (with some increase as soon as after I post, but I've had peaks of viewers totally unrelated to a new post, so unexiplicable to me); and sometimes, in a day, I have more viewers for stories I posted MONTHS (or YEARS!!) ago than for the story just posted, so... I DON'T UNDERSTAND why, how and when readers decide to read a story (some readers read stories already completed, for example, so they won't read your story no matter when you post it, but just when you complete it).