| If you are serious about your writing, in fact even | | | | putting a selection on your site will get your name |
| if you aren't, you need a web site. Let me repeat | | | | linked with various key words surrounding that |
| that -- every writer needs a web site! | | | | topic in the search engines. |
| If you don't believe me then here are five very | | | | 4. For writers, your name is your brand and you |
| good reasons why: | | | | need to continually have your name out there and |
| 1. Your web site can serve as your showcase and | | | | furthermore you need to have it connected with |
| portfolio. It can include your biography, experience, | | | | your areas of expertise. The more articles and |
| and writing credits as well as copies of your work | | | | essays you have published on the web then the |
| or better yet--links to your published work. So | | | | more times your name gets out there for |
| many queries today are done electronically and it | | | | readers, clients, and editors. Owning your own |
| much easier to simply include an url for editors or | | | | web site for example) is like owning your own |
| prospective clients to visit than to try to attach | | | | billboard on the internet superhighway. |
| copies and/or a long list of urls on various | | | | 5. You can earn money with your own web site |
| locations. | | | | and your writing even without getting paid by |
| 2. Your web site can be your creative outlet. | | | | publications. Place Pay-Per-Click ads on your site or |
| Perhaps your bread-and-butter writing is in the | | | | sign up for some affiliate programs to advertise |
| financial field but you really enjoy writing poetry | | | | on your site. Depending on the size of your site |
| or about fly fishing. Then you can publish those | | | | and the traffic you attract this may become a |
| pieces on your web site to receive exposure or | | | | major new source of income for you! |
| simply to reward yourself for a job well done. | | | | I hope I've convinced you that a web site can be |
| Who knows, you might even find yourself with | | | | an asset to your writing career, but I must warn |
| some new paying assignments in these fields! | | | | you that web mastering can be very addictive to |
| 3. You can demonstrate your expertise in your | | | | us creative types. Don't let it overtake your |
| particular field or fields by demonstrating the | | | | writing time. Start out simple and build over time |
| number of articles you have written in that area | | | | so you can work out a good balance between |
| as well as any experience and/or education you | | | | your writing and your webmaster chores. |
| may offer in this field. Listing your articles or | | | | |