[ Live Example | My AO3 Skins ]

[ Live Example | My AO3 Skins ]

While AO3 has a way to click to see notes at the end, this tutorial is how you can not only have your viewers click to view certain notes, but also click back to where they had been reading before. We don’t even need to use a workskin for this, but just an implementation of simple anchor links. So whether you have a lot of references in your work or just want to let your inner Pratchett* loose, this is how you do it.

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The two types of fantasy writers

1. Feverishly calculating the body mass of your dragon species, spent 5 hours last night researching the origins of steel, losing sleep over horseshoes, 20 tabs open, should a cockatrice be warm-blooded?, will die if they don’t immediately figure out when honeybees were first domesticated

2.

Your main concern with grammar in fiction should be, does it make sense to the reader upon first pass-through. You can have sentence fragments. Half-formed thoughts. Periods where normally there would be question marks. You can throw out many of the rules you learned in school. But that only works if the writing can still be understood without question and without unintended ambiguity.

me, reading my own unfinished WIP that has never been posted online: I really wish this author would update…

a.k.a. you may find your work Bad and Cringy™️ but you wrote something and that’s a Good Thing™️.

All writing is good practice and progresses you as a writer.

“For The Plot,” I whisper, deleting a rad detail that no longer works as tears fall from my eyes