Freelancing is a competitive business, especially in today’s fast-paced, e-focused world.Often there are hundreds of writers competing for same, limited number of assignments, and writer who can best showcase his or her abilities is one who lands job.
Editors, however, are very busy people, and don’t have time nor inclination to sift through hundreds of resumes and clips they receive in search of your information. If your credits and clips are not right there on an editor’s desk, or available with a single click of mouse, that plum assignment is going to go to writer who managed to catch editor’s eye; even if you’re better writer for job.
So, how do you get your writing clips into hands of editors looking for writers? Easy, with your own online resume!
A personal site has become a must for today’s freelancer, but successful writers know that they need to do more than simply paste their picture out on Internet, or send off their email address along with their snail mail query.
What’s needed is a site that showcases your entire writing resume, including:
Bio Publishing history Writing-related job history All published credits Specialty or genre Easily accessible and visually attractive clips, whether scanned or in document form
An editor is then able to access all of your information at once, instead of being forced to slog through link after link looking for work that is spread out over twelve different sites, six of which no longer exist. With everything in one place, an editor is also more able to get a feel for your abilities and range.