Setting Your Sites

Buried in the back pages of the Writer's Digest website, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett has a pretty comprehensive article, Setting Your Sites, about why all types of writers should have websites. As well as explicating the whys, she also lists hows and a large helping of what to include in your site. Rather than just a laundry list, however, she includes links to the sites of many authors/writers, some professionally created and some DIY efforts. She's not shy about listing her own website, Pen on Fire, as an example. To keep content fresh and visitors returning, she suggests:

Eight million U.S. adults have online journals (called blogs) and -- especially if you're not yet published -- it may be the best way to go, in terms of establishing a Web presence. A blog also is good bait to get people to return to your website, because, by its very nature, it needs to be updated regularly.