Three Quick Ways to Link Your Current Story With One Of Your Others
Various reasons may make it smart to link them for your readers.
1. Within the text, conversational.
Make the text appear on a word or two in the body of your story. Simply find the word(s) you want to be clickable and highlight it (them.) A speech-type balloon will appear over it. I recommend hitting the B for bold first and then pasting your URL, but that is optional.
Next go to the story to which you wish to link, and highlight the address URL. Control-c, or use your normal method to copy it to the clipboard. Go back to the speech-type balloon with the seven symbols and click the icon that looks like the link of a chain.
That causes a blank speech balloon over your link-to-be, in which you paste the address URL of your target story. Hit “return,” and it will look like the one in the previous sentence.
2. In “HERE” text.
This one is a bit more obvious and less conversational. You would simply refer to your target story like THIS HERE.
3. In the banner.
Depending on your writing platform, you may have to experiment with this one, but a favorite way is to insert a self-generated banner by taking an appropriate space, and at the start of a blank line.
Paste the address URL from your clipboard onto that line and hit “return.” Bingo, a banner appears and it is clickable. No tiny credit is needed on this banner.
If you have made your own banner as with Canva, just place it where you want it and control-k (Windows) it to paste your target URL to it. On this platform, use the tiny credit print to say you made the banner yourself.
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