Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Writing Tip: Yes, you need a Web site -- a blog IS a Web site

Books: Write Fiction

Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

I get at least one question a week along the lines of: "I'm not a techy person. Do I REALLY need a Web site?"

Yes, you do. Because:

* Even print editors are getting more Web-aware all the time; they like to look you up on the Web. Your Web site is proof that you're a real person and that you care about readers;

* Your Web site is a focus group. Test your query/ proposal ideas on your blog's readers. If no one comments, the idea is (probably) a dud. Tinker with it some more;

* If you're a new writer, your blog/ site forces you to write, even when you don't want to. Professional writers don't want to write some of the time either, but we do it anyway, just like bricklayers lay bricks when they're not inspired;

* The world is changing. Have you noticed sites like Gather.com? And Writerly? You might as well make peace with technology because it's here to stay. :-)

* Web sites/ blogs FREE you as a writer. You can reach all the readers you want -- you can bypass gatekeepers like editors completely; and

* Web sites are fun.

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