Like last week, this is going to be something a little out of the usual realm for the Writing Advice segment of this blog. But it’s still advice, and it pertains to writing, so…here goes. One of my writing teachers once recommended that every author have their own website, so their presence online wasn’t beholden to another company (like, say, WordPress) that might change its terms of service, go out of business, get overrun by Nazis, etc. “Control your own presence online,” is how he put it. This was over a decade ago, and websites aren’t really the first thing people think about now when they think about a presence on the web. I
Writing Advice: Adaptability and Control
Writing Advice: Adaptability and Control
Writing Advice: Adaptability and Control
Like last week, this is going to be something a little out of the usual realm for the Writing Advice segment of this blog. But it’s still advice, and it pertains to writing, so…here goes. One of my writing teachers once recommended that every author have their own website, so their presence online wasn’t beholden to another company (like, say, WordPress) that might change its terms of service, go out of business, get overrun by Nazis, etc. “Control your own presence online,” is how he put it. This was over a decade ago, and websites aren’t really the first thing people think about now when they think about a presence on the web. I