How to Survive as a Writer in the Real World
When I became a full-time freelance writer in 2008, I dreamed big dreams of lucrative commissions for national magazines, free meals at fancy restaurants, overnight stays at flash hotels and the...
View ArticleTop Tips for Writers from Famous Authors
I just discovered, thanks to Melody Godfred’s delightful Write in Color blog, an equally delightful series in The Guardian called Rules for Writers. The series features famous authors like Jonathon...
View ArticleWriting Samples: What if I haven’t been published?
One of the biggest challenges in starting out as a freelance writer is getting your first article published. But to get published, you need show editors what you can do. How do you do that when you’ve...
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In praise of custom domain names
The road to establishing yourself as a professional writer may seem long and ominous but one quick and easy thing you can do to speed things along is to get your own domain name. Why? Well, compare...
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How to Make Your Website Theme Rock
One of our missions with Writer’s Residence is to provide writers with a website that looks good by default, so you can spend less time “designing” and more time writing. As such, we offer 16...
View ArticleHow to use your writing portfolio to apply to different types of writing jobs
I just had an email from one of our users with a very good question: Do you have any advice or blog posts about using a writing portfolio to apply to multiple types of writing jobs? How should my...
View ArticleSEO and your writing website
One of our users recently wrote in with a question about SEO, which basically boiled down to this: How does Google find my website? Moreover, how does Google find my website if the website is created...
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5 Must-Haves For Your Online Writing Portfolio
If you’ve just create an online writing portfolio website to market yourself and your work, then you’re probably eager to get it up to snuff as quickly as possible so you can start using it to land...
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How to use your online writing portfolio with social media
I’m very excited to be sharing with you our first ever guest post! Today, freelance copywriter Bianca Marieta Budau explains how writers can use social media in conjunction with their writing...
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Let Them Know You’re Alive: Keep Your Writer Website Up to Date
I’ve been looking through our users’ writer websites in order to get a feel for how they use their online writing portfolios. It’s always nice to stumble upon a use case that hadn’t occurred to me...
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