My muse has been rather squished
for the last few days. Dealing with some real life stuff that was draining and
emotional and my poor muse just got … flattened. I haven’t written anything for
days and it is killing me.
So I went back and scraped through
some of my original stuff from a couple of years ago. I can’t post it at fanfic
or on Ao3 as it is original work and it predates this blog so it was never
posted here. I have been fooling around and uploading the stories onto my Wattpad account.
They are all short stories basically.
And I am learning as I go. Nothing
like throwing myself in and dog-paddling like mad before I drown.
Wattpad is very basic. All html - at
least I think it is. Half my bio has links and half doesn't and I don’t know why.
Sigh.
I paste in text and it retains
formatting so that’s good… I think.
I have muddled about with covers
and worked out how to do them in photobucket but they are pretty basic and I swear
that site has it in for me. No no don’t resize it; damn you. It looks horrible
now! Reload and start again.
Covers in Wattpad are book sized;
a vertical rectangle of 256x400. Good for books, bad for any other kind of
banner size. I think fanfic is trying to use that shape, too. But that means
that none of my current banners can be reused unless I get them resized.
You can add links to an image but
it kind of shows up down on the right hand side like the image below under a
heading of ‘media’ and I think the only way you can use more than one image is
to make a collage of them yourself before you add the link in. I think… You can
add videos, though. Which means you could probably put a song into your chapter
if you used a video link to it. Hmmm… or maybe those cute book trailers that I don’t
even know how to begin making. Possibilities there.
I am surfing YouTube watching videos
made by teens to try and work it out.
Such is my life.
Grins.
Oooh. I have one Wattpad follower!
Yay *hugs solitary follower*
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