About Me
(Matt (Genise, specifically))
I like to show off. But an “about me” page is, traditionally, not a great place to show off. The point isn’t stylistic flexibility. The point is brevity: a concise synopsis of yourself written in that reliable “copywriter” tone.
How is that tone achieved? Usually with a strained but clever opening, a nice chunk of humorous biography, and a zany concluding exhortation to reach out.
The word “dream” is probably lodged somewhere in there, too, alongside a sincere declaration of love for advertising. Expect few adverbs, fewer polysyllables, a spare comma or two, and many sentence fragments.
You know what, let me just show you:
“Writer. Of copy. Sometimes fiction. Frequently Tweets. Never poetry. Definitely words. And this about me.
I’m a former production coordinator and assistant who always dreamed of getting paid to write. But, with a slow-going novel and a bank account unfit for bohemia I turned to every author’s fourth love: copy.
Yet sometimes your fourth love is your true love.
Reach out if you want to bemoan the state of popular fiction, or hear about my time dodging pinwheeling wine glasses on reality TV sets.”
See what I mean now? It works pretty well.