Hey guys, long time! Long story for you, but I’ll try to keep it short:
So, Wattpad lets you add a picture at the top of every chapter. At some point in my writing I discovered this, and absolutely loved pulling together something to display for every chapter! I worked as hard on those pictures as the stories themselves, and pretty soon almost every chapter of every story had an illustration!
It used to be that Wattpad accepted only a link, not the picture itself. So I posted all my pictures to Facebook, and placed links to them in Wattpad. But then one day, Facebook changed all the links, and all my chapter illustrations were gone! They were still on Facebook, but none of the links I’d entered into Wattpad worked anymore.
I can’t tell you how devastating that was. All that work, and I would have to start all over again. I would need to find somewhere new to store dozens of illustrations, then copy and paste all the new links. And who was to say they wouldn’t change all those links? I really couldn’t face it, and I dropped off Wattpad for, like, four years. Really sorry about that!
So this week I discovered that Wattpad finally allows you to upload pictures directly for chapter headings, not just through indirect links. This simplified the process of replacing all those illustrations by an order of magnitude! It became a one-day job instead of one week.
So I finally did it, and now all my illustrations are back! Hey I’m a Superhero, Ellis in Wattpadland, Prettiest Vampire, Bride of the Wolf, Frauleinstein, and all the others once again have illustrations to complement every chapter!
If you’ve read these stories without the illustrations, I hope you’ll go back and just scan through to see the way I originally imagined them. Please leave a comment if you do!
Love,
Lori.