How Do I Create a Writing Portfolio?
A writing portfolio is a critical tool for everyone from writers looking for jobs to students who want to graduate from creative writing programs at colleges and universities. Film and television writers, technical writers, newspaper staffers, magazine employees, and almost anyone else with a job which requires writing should maintain a writing portfolio. There are a number of ways to approach the construction of a writing portfolio so that the finished product will have a high impact. Ideally, a writer will have a mixture of writing which can be included in a portfolio, such as short stories, poems, personal essays, research papers, writing clips showcasing published works such as articles in newspapers, and so forth. Writers should get into the habit of keeping copies of all of their work in both hard copy and digital form, so that they can have the necessary materials readily available, and to keep an overall record of work. It helps to index the samples a writer keeps on hand so th
I would think for a writing portfolio you are going to want to have different samples of your work…depending on the type of writing you do/enjoy the most, you will most likely have that be the strong point in selected examples. If you are able, try to have different levels of your work, for example, have a piece of writing you have done a couple of years ago, then a piece that is more recent in whatever genre you write in. That way you can show depth and growth in your work, but I also would not put a lot of work that is not your best in there either. I would think having other examples would be good, but not everyone enjoys writing poetry, nonfiction, fiction, sci fi, romance, script, play, professional (business letter, resume example), etc.
