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So you want to know how you can build up your writing portfolio? One of the best ways you can do this is to just work really hard. However, you also want to know how to work smart, as well as working hard. There are many strategies you can employ to make sure that the work that you put in is going to result in a bigger portfolio, and a portfolio that is going to work for your regardless of the size. However, here are some tips to simply make your portfolio bigger.

Take as many freelance jobs as you possibly can. Whether they pay or not, you can never have anything that you write count as insignificant. Experience is experience, so take whatever work is out there for you to get. Even if you don't get paid for it, you can consider the exposure that you get for it to be the main driver of the compensation that you are going to get. Imagine it as paying for your future today.

Get on a site that will allow you to publish as many articles as possible. This is the quickest way to build up your portfolio and allow you to start to network toward a bigger opportunity. Find a community that is supportive, and get your work to as many places as possible. Start with your Facebook account, and use Twitter to build a following.

Eventually this will lead to some promising leads to other publishers, and others who want you to do work for them, and this time you will get paid. Trust me, there is no better feeling than when someone comes up to you and asks you to write for them, as opposed to having to go beg someone to let you write for them. It makes the game so much more fun.

Whatever you do, you cannot give up on yourself. You have to just keep working. Even if you just use a MySpace blog,or Facebook notes to keep your writing in the public eye, you can never have too small an audience, or a voice that isn't worth sharing. Just keep going, and keep writing, and that portfolio is going to keep growing. Everyone is a critic these days, and even having some nice Facebook comments can lead you places.

Writing is a hard thing to do. Even if you have the talent, you still have to deal with the exact parameters of what a publisher might be looking for, or you might not find that there are topics that you like writing about that are in demand. Just keep going though, and don't lose your passion for writing. Something will come up, it always does.

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