If you’re a freelance writer, your focus has probably been on signing up to freelance websites for jobs so you have money coming in. 

But one of the most overlooked aspects of being a successful freelance writer is having your own freelance writer website. 

If you’re unsure of how to go about it, this guide, with freelance writer website examples, will help you to create your own site in no time at all.

Honestly, I get why people drag their feet on making a personal site. It’s hard to justify spending hours on WordPress themes when you could be sending pitches or chasing invoices. Still, after launching my own website back in 2023 (and tweaking it endlessly since), I started noticing a shift—clients actually began contacting me out of the blue, which honestly felt surreal at first. Your own little corner of the internet just gives you a kind of legitimacy you can’t manufacture on a job board.

Also, there’s the matter of control. When you’re on Upwork or whatever other platform, your profile is only going to show what they let you show and get buried if an algorithm hiccups. With a site, it’s just you—your voice, your clips, the weird little quirks that actually make you memorable. And hey, you don’t have to worry about some company changing the rules overnight and wiping out your reviews either.