Export your work to Archive of Our Own

Archive of Our Own is a project managed by the Organization for Transformative Works. The non-profit, non-commercial archive hosts transformative fanworks, in particular, fan fiction.

With Ellipsus, you can quickly copy your current doc or draft to post it as a new work or chapter. You can also open your existing chapters to publish edits. Both options will copy your current document/draft as HTML and open AO3 in a new tab.

Post a new work

You’ll need to log into AO3 in the current browser to post a new work.

Navigate to the doc or draft you want to share, then open Share and export and click Export to AO3. This will open a new screen. Click + New work to copy your current view as HTML and open AO3 in a new tab.

Once AO3 is open, you can paste your text into the Work text field as HTML and update your title, tags, and other metadata.

View existing works

You can also view a list of your current works (and their chapters in Ellipsus). After clicking Export to AO3, you can enter your AO3 username (not pseuds) to generate a list of your current works.

We use AO3’s publicly available URLs to display works and chapters. We do not store any passwords, and you can only post to a linked account if you are logged into it on AO3.

Note: Accounts with a large number of frequently take longer to populate, and private accounts and works will not show at all. Certain browser extensions and privacy features have also been known to block the connection, and connectivity issues can lead to request timeouts.

Post or edit chapters in existing works

After entering your AO3 username, you can post new works or chapters or edit existing chapters with your Ellipsus writing.

Click the arrow next to a work to reveal its chapters. From this view, you can click + New chapter to add a chapter to that work or click on the pencil icon to edit an existing chapter.

Images

Images are not included in AO3 exports. This is AO3 only allows the embedding of images hosted elsewhere, and Ellipsus does not create a source URL to images in Ellipsus docs. You can read more in this guide on AO3.