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“Get up.”

“Don’t you get it? You won. I yield.”

“Like hell you do. I know you’re a better swordsman than that. Get up.”

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Attract Those Readers: When to Post on Ao3

Miraculous Fanworks Guide: When to post and when not to post on Ao3

Do you struggle to attract readers to your Ao3 fanfictions? Looking to boost your numbers on a fic?

Then you’ve come to the right place!

When to post to get those eyeballs on your piece:

Using a script they coded themselves, Olcalhoun conducted a year-long study of Ao3′s posting times tracking four things:

How many users were online.

How many new stories were posted in the last 10 minutes.

How many stories were added to the feature box in the last 10 minutes.

How many stories were in both the ‘new’ and ‘featured’ boxes.

Olcalhoun collected over 50,000 data points, and found that the best times to post on Ao3 were Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, from 12pm to 5pm PST.

It’s science!

When not to post:

However, if there’s a good time to post, when is the worst time to post? The answer, provided in this post by jenroses, is anytime between 5pm and 10pm PST. The worst day to post overall is Friday.

But why?

Turns out there’s a bug in Ao3′s system. If you post during that time, your story will have a manually-set publication date.

What this means is if you post between 5pm and 10pm PST, your story will not appear on the top of the new stories in the tag. 

Your story will appear “earlier” than those stories–lower on the front page than stories posted hours before.

So now you know: 

do post on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday from 12pm to 5pm PST

do not post on Friday, or from 5pm to 10pm anyday 

Happy writing!

-Cass

Image credit.

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What is a writer?

Wrong answers only.

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I feel this in my soul

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God, I know this is long, but please open this image by image and read the worst possible take I've ever seen anyone have on why writing fanfiction about real people is okay, please I beg you read this because it's hilarious! I'd like to thank the person who sent me this yesterday because I've been thinking of it ever since.

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i feel like people have forgotten how to be a generous audience when they read/watch something. like sometimes you have to buy into some bullshit plot points or a deus ex machina or a few loopholes as the price of admission for an otherwise fun time. sometimes these things are just gears that get us to where the story really wants to be, and too many people get caught up in those gears. sometimes you gotta meet a story halfway.

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I love this SO much, this is so fun! Man I wish this was a full story / a tv show, I would 100% pay to read this.

The princess was cursed that her first husband would die a horrible death. In order to avoid this horrible fate the royal family used you as a scapegoat and married you to the princess. But because of your immortality you have died over 20 times and still come back to life.

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I'm tripping again, fumbling, with a map and compass stumbling though a passage, ancient, crumbling against my stomach's anxious rumbling, I'm sorry -

I do that sometimes I subscribe to their every potion they prescribe I imbibe in attempt to derive a destination other than derelict does destiny die in the dim light like I and why oh why am I can I still be playing so hard at something while so consistently saying nothing?

wordplay, but she's through with you before the foreplay, nothing more to say, it's ok it's nothing new - nothing aside from a sleight of skeletal hand, the awkward attempt to stand steady under the weight of such heavy...everything

weighs upon my emaciated frame framed by the oddly placed protrusion of bones like some long-abandoned home's crumbling shame, as if the skeleton's gotten wise to the game and it's already plotting its escape from this already rotting cage it's got cash and passports stashed in a case in some safe place, babe, you know what they say about rats and sinking ships,

what they say about attempts to rise above the heavy reprise of guise to exorcise the heavy veil of obscurity there is this:

I am going to live with the doctors for a little while and try to do some healing maybe meet myself on the other side if I'm still there

I love you for being you and I love you for loving me through and I'm trying to learn to love me again maybe on the way that you do, like you do stay tuned

I'm not nearly through

#writing #writeblr

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Hi! do you like fantasy? Are you maybe even a DM? Then this is for you!!

Pt 2

#writing #writeblr #writing resources

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I left for two months and I suddenly have 75 notes on something??? what happened

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that ‘pakige?’ post but me, a couple hours after posting a fic, like ‘comints?’

#writing #writeblr

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use a horizontal rule instead of special characters if you’d like your fic to work for people who use screen readers

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i hope you write, i hope we both write

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my gender is a sexy androgynous pirate with smudged eyeliner and the top few buttons of my shirt undone

#ADWT

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LMAO THAN KYOU THIS IS THE BEST I FUCKING LOVE IT

You’re the first person to be sent to Mars. When you land you decide to take out your phone and take some photos so you can send them to your friends later. After a few minutes you get a notification: “NEW BLUETOOTH DEVICE “HELP ME” DETECTED - WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONNECT?“

#this has made my ENTIRE day #this is fuckin hilarious #ofc it was the pizza person #it's always the pizza person!

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Okay actually you're right, if you wanna know what sensory overload feels like, put this at full blast on your headphones.

Easily the best audio post I’ve ever made

#writing #writeblr #autism #sensory overload #i'm not even joking that's what it's like #another example would be to play a dog barking + a classroom setting at full volume in your ears