Make anchored text frame after it is move in to story

Hi,
In my document have 4 stories. and one text frame
this text frame is make of anchored text frame and it move in story 1
It is possible ?
please help me...
my coding is shown in below
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2014"
        set storyofset to story offset of myElement-------------->myElement is particular xpath
        tell storyofset
            set anchored position of anchored object settings of text frame 1 to anchored
            set horizontal reference point of anchored object settings of text frame 1 to anchor location
            set anchor xoffset of anchored object settings of text frame 1 to 0
            set anchor yoffset of anchored object settings of text frame 1 to 0
            set text column count of text frame preferences of text frame 1 to 1
        end tell
    end tell
thanks in advance.
by, John Peter.

I copied text & paisted it and then draged the 3 photos from the file...then clicked on the photo then clicked the inline boxon tool bar nexed to floating one and that is how I did it
I do not know what you mean "cut & paist" how do I get the photo in from my picter folder if I do not drag it to the page in Pages?
I went to my photo folder and copied a photo and paisted the photo on the top left part of the page and it went there but there was no text to the right of photo...I could crop the photo to what ever size but no text to the right of photo...
This is just too big of a mess of a program as it should be easier then this,,,I hav e 300 photos in this project and would have to re-paist them all...that is nuts...
I see the button to the right of inline and floating that has 6 [lace to have the photo but the text does not float around the photo...
If this is what your talking about this very little freedom in my page layout as I need it to let me place it where I need it to be and the wrap the text...
There has to be an easier way to get my books ready for other formats other that Apple's iPad...iBooks Author was way eisier to make ready for iTunes...Love that program!!!
Want my books for sale on all the other formats and was told by Apple Pages whould do it...
I must be be out to lunch or the designers at Apple are ???

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