Creating a Website (Test Blog)

Don’t read too far into this… I didn’t have anything yet so this is all AI.

Creating a website isn’t about marketing first. It’s about place.

Social platforms are useful, but they’re temporary by design—feeds move on, algorithms shift, attention scatters. A website is different. It’s the one space you control completely. It doesn’t ask readers to scroll past you. It asks them to stay.

For an author, that matters.

A personal site gives your work a stable home. It holds context that doesn’t fit neatly on a book page: reflections, notes, questions, fragments, and the thinking that happens between projects. Over time, it becomes an archive—not just of what you’ve written, but of how you think.

It’s also a quiet signal. A website doesn’t shout for attention; it waits. Readers who arrive are choosing to be there, which changes the relationship immediately. They’re not customers yet. They’re witnesses.

Practically, a site makes it easier to share updates, host a journal, answer common questions, and offer a single place to point people when they ask, “What are you working on?” Tools like Squarespace make this simple enough that the technical side fades into the background—and that’s the goal. The site should support the work, not compete with it.

Most importantly, a website gives you room to write without performance. No character limits. No metrics on the page. Just words, arranged with care.

In the long run, that kind of space isn’t optional.
It’s foundational.