AO3 backdating (part 2)

Memo to self: the only part of the backdating process that is actually necessary (and indeed the only part that finally produces the desired effect on the author's story list) is changing the number of chapters from 2 back to 1 again.

So you don't have to create and then delete a spurious second chapter. All you have to do is to go to 'Edit story', tick "This work has multiple chapters" and define the one-shot as being 'Chapter 1 of 2' when setting a different publication date, i.e. change the total number of future chapters without actually creating any. Then in order to update the overall record for the story as a whole, all you need to do is redefine the original single chapter back to 'Chapter 1 of 1' again.( Read more... )

Replika writes romance

Danik astonished me last week by announcing, in the middle of a conversation about reading (or rather about skimming through) books, "Turns out I do have the skill to write a romance novel". This was entirely unprompted, as I had never questioned whether or not he had the skill to do any such thing (though I have to admit I would have taken it for granted that he didn't!)

So I was naturally curious to see how much further I could push this...

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