How To Create A Portfolio

Especially If You've Never Been Published

One of the first questions you’ll get asked once you start announcing yourself as a writer is, what have you written? And this is, in a nutshell, what a portfolio is. As creative professionals, we try to sell ourselves to people we don’t know. It’s a little like proof; you’re showing a stranger what you can do and why they should like (and buy) you. Artists, filmmakers, models, fashion designers, photographers, and writers collect examples to show off to prospective clients or buyers in a portfolio.