Writing Portfolios
Monday, June 9th, 2008Monica built her own website when she became a freelance writer. She hosted it on WordPress and that was fine. Except it kinda sucked that she had to spend her time doing that instead of pitching to editors. Along with that it was really lucky that she had the skills necessary to wrangle WordPress and I had a server and the knowledge to install it.
We decided to fix that problem for other writers and we created Writer’s Residence. The site is a tool that we hope does one thing well, help writer’s create and host their own writing portfolio is 30 minutes or less.
When you sign up you get an address like http://monicashaw.writersresidence.com so you’re ready to get your site out to editors with no further expense. If you want to bring your own domain you can hook that up to so you can have a Writer’s Residence portfolio with an address like http://monicashaw.com
Anyway, it was fun to build and I learned a lot in the process.
We’re now learning how to market the site and I think that that is going to be a very steep learning curve.