Do Writers Need Web Sites?

Written by C.S. Paquin


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Finally, once established, a Web site can provide secondary income to your actual writing. You might decide to publish a weekly column and set up an e-mail list of subscribers. With enough subscribers on your list, advertisers WILL want to pay you to reach your audience. Or you get a book accepted by a publisher . well of course you'll want to sell a few copies from your site.

Of course, not everyone has Web design skills, or planned a Web presence in their budget (which, in my case was about $0.00). But do not be deterred. You don't need to register a domain name though it does help. A domain name looks better than a long URL and you have an e-mail address that staysrepparttar same.

You can also choose to use space on another domain name -- often a far cheaper option than getting your own domain and paying server-hosting fees.

If you really, really can't put an HTML page together (and withrepparttar 129888 software packaged withrepparttar 129889 major browsers, it's easy to make simple pages), consider trading services with a budding designer. Onlyrepparttar 129890 other night on an e-mail list I subscribe to, a Web designer requested help with writing a press release. She couldn't afford to pay anyone to write it, and would happily have traded HTML services for a well-written release.

C.S. Paquin is a nationally published writer in both the business and humor markets. Cheryl has a Master Of Arts in Journalism and has been writing freelance for over five years. She contributes regularly to regional publications in Minnesota. She is the owner and editor of www.WritersLounge.com, a site for creative nonfiction and essay writers.


Inspiration -- The Writer’s 'Aha' Moment

Written by C.S. Paquin


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A new masterpiece began whenrepparttar next journal beckoned. I would tell myself this was "it":repparttar 129885 story that would be published (I could justify any expense for an inspiration fix).

It was last spring I hadrepparttar 129886 "Aha" moment. It came in Wal-Mart. Shopping with my 7-year-old daughter -- a blossoming writer -- she insisted I buy her a brightly covered journal.

"Why do you want another one?" I asked. "You've got a ton you haven't written in."

"I know," she said, "but I need it to write a story."

"It doesn't matter what you write on," I said, sighing atrepparttar 129887 extravagance. "If you really want to be a writer, anything will do."

"Aha!" I thought, hearing my own pithy wisdom. I bought herrepparttar 129888 journal -- she'll learn her own lessons, her way -- and came home. Grabbing an ordinary legal pad, I wrote a piece with an ending, which finally made it to publication.

It didn't make me famous, but it was a start. I proudly cut outrepparttar 129889 clip -- and stuck it in my journal.

C.S. Paquin is a nationally published writer in both the business and humor markets. Cheryl has a Master Of Arts in Journalism and has been writing freelance for over five years. She contributes regularly to regional publications in Minnesota. She is the owner and editor of http://WritersLounge.com and the author of a new e-book: 101 Paying Markets for Essays, Columns & Creative Nonfiction, available at: http://writerslounge.com/101_markets.html


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