Confusing!!!

  Hello, My Authors, New Writers. It's confusing being a writer. especially if you have no real money to do it with. The writing part is kind of easy, but the rest of the stuff is crazy. There's the editing of the first draft you've written, and the editing part is like 5 steps, if not more, until your draft looks darn near perfect. Then, between all that, it's the social media thing where you put the announcement about your new book, and also let's not forget, do you need an author website, and at what cost?? You see so much stuff to learn about becoming a writer, and I'm only doing this for a hobby, and maybe down the line, make some coffee and book money from it. God willing. Anyway, I'm still in the process of editing my stories, but I'm looking into a free author website. I've started with Google Sites. It's free, and I'm debating whether to use their free domain name or get my own for $20 a year. Some people on Reddit swear by Carrd. It's free, and it's a basic landing page for new authors. Some go with Substack. There are so many. I look for free stuff to use for my writing because I'm working with like $50 buck for this hobby at most.

So, my question to you is, do you have or are you thinking about making an author's website?  If so, who are you using?

                                       

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