5 Reasons Every Writer Needs A Web Site

If you are serious about your writing, in fact evenputting a selection on your site will get your name
if you aren't, you need a web site. Let me repeatlinked 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 very4. 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 andfurthermore 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 workessays you have published on the web then the
or better yet--links to your published work. Somore times your name gets out there for
many queries today are done electronically and itreaders, clients, and editors. Owning your own
much easier to simply include an url for editors orweb site for example) is like owning your own
prospective clients to visit than to try to attachbillboard on the internet superhighway.
copies and/or a long list of urls on various5. 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 thesign up for some affiliate programs to advertise
financial field but you really enjoy writing poetryon your site. Depending on the size of your site
or about fly fishing. Then you can publish thoseand the traffic you attract this may become a
pieces on your web site to receive exposure ormajor 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 withan 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 yourus creative types. Don't let it overtake your
particular field or fields by demonstrating thewriting time. Start out simple and build over time
number of articles you have written in that areaso you can work out a good balance between
as well as any experience and/or education youyour writing and your webmaster chores.
may offer in this field. Listing your articles or