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Hello, Pikey. I just concentrate on Helium these days. I'm earning consistently well, and I get a lot of feedback. I also get people asking me to write for their websites - trouble is, they seem to think I should be grateful just for being asked, and it goes strangely quiet when I mention payment. I consider myself to be a professional writer - I'm earning a decent amount every month - not enough to live on, but I think it could get that way some time soon. So I've decided no more freebies, unless other sites are prepared to reproduce articles without alteration and provide a backlink to my other stuff. I've got past being flattered that people like my writing, and I'm now thinking if they like it that much, they can pay for it.

If it's good stuff, you must hang on to the copyright and your rights in general. So, your own web site is the only place for it. There, you might get some offers for publication if you are lucky. Let it go elsewhere and you have lost it forever!

Yuwie, Multiply, MySpace.... Missing: Muse, average height, average weight, average hair color, talks kind of English-like.

I will have to head over and have a gander hun had a bit of the same thing with squidoo if i'm honest had a go and then havent really been back to update regularily. I've earned 56p off one lense though ha ha ha It's easy to do i just havent had the time and new stuffs come up for me so been doing that. I know carrie uses wordpress and alot of people seem to like that for it's verstility. Other than that and Ning i'm oblivious xxx

I'm not that creative with Hubble Bubble. But I can do wonders with Mr Bubble...lol. However, a good friend of mine uses another social site (that ytou and I are also a member of) to showcase various books that he's been writing. It works for him.

I joined Hub Pages about two years ago, but I never got back there to complete a page. It seemed to me that it was a bit limiting at the time. I was using Squidoo for this type of medium at the time and I still do as it seems more of a complete package. You can build some really professional pages there with all of the tools and modules that they have. Hub pages did not seem to be as comprehensive, but it has probably added to what it had back then. Squidoo have added lots too, so I think I will happily keep playing there for this type of creative outlet. The only other thing that I have played with is a couple of Wordpress blogs that I have never really got around to finishing the way that I would like them to be.

I used to blog but haven't been there in ages..or over a year anyhow. It was a blog of my weight loss..but when I went off my diet.. i quit writing in it.which I shouldn't have because maybe I could have been inspired, motivated or something from someone. Here is the only place I come to now..and don't showcase my work anywhere else right now.

Don't know how many people have answered but I've only just remembered a site I'm on, it's called WEBook, the problem I have is that I am not always in the writing mood and so don't go on regularly enough to know how good it is.

The places where I go to are usually writing communities and the like, depending on what I write. If it's extremely short fiction then it goes to the drabble communities, if it's longer pieces it ends up on my journal. Really depends on what I write for myself.

I love to write but mine is mostly fiction, and am wondering if there are sites on the web that cater to us fiction writers.'also I ma starting my autobiography and am hoping eventually to get published but thats mostly my pie in the sky dream.have you tried helium as so many here swear by it and there are several others too but my mind is doing a senior moment here

Hi p1kef1sh. I started writing on HubPages about 2 months ago. You own your stories and articles on Hubpages. If you choose to publish them on other sites, your earnings drop slightly. I haven't earned a great deal yet but I only have 6 hubs. I've had more views at the Hub than I ever would have gotten at my own blog. The up side is my own blog is going up because other hubbers who like my style are now coming over to visit. HubPages is more for article writing but there are a few who have gone on from there. Use the Hub to get your name out but I would definitely put my stories on my own site too.

Sites like Hubpages are really more for articles than fiction. In fact, fiction doesn't usually do very well on any of the writing sites where you can get paid. And it's true that as long as your work is on one of those sites, they can use any part of it for promoting the site. I keep telling myself that I need to get around to setting up my own website, but I'm too busy writing. :-( I haven't put much of my fiction online, but it's a good way to get readers. I have a blog on Live Journal and am a member of several writing communities that each specialize in a particular kind of writing. I've loved serializing a novel on LJ because I got some very helpful critiques. One drawback, of course, is that if you want to approach a traditional print publisher eventually, they will reject anything that's been published before, even if it's only on your own blog. But if you plan to go Indie, or with one of the newer online publishers, putting your work online first can be a real advantage, because it gives you a pre-made reader base for future sales. I'm revising and expanding the novel that I serialized, and several readers have said that they'd like to buy it when it's published. I'll be publishing it as an ebook on smashwords.com, so I can set my own price, and even have special sales.