DON’T USE AO3 FOR WRITING FICS

Because Ao3 has quite a lot of maintenance that happens, I would not recommend at all using it directly to write your fics. Use a different app like Google Docs or Notes and paste them in. That way you don’t lose your fic as you are writing, and you will still have your fic if the site were to go down so you can still have access and edit them. It’s not worth writing 3k words of beautifully written work only to lose it due to issues with the site :( . So please if you use Ao3 to write I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend switching to an alternative app for safe backup. :)