Your ability to write good biographies will improve with time. When you first start, just write everything about yourself that you can think of that’s relevant to your writing career, in the third person. Aim for at least a couple of pages.
Just write in free writing style, without taking your fingers from the keyboard – just writing anything that comes to mind. It prevents you being overly self-conscious. It may help if you create a mind map, or a cluster diagram, with relevant highlights of your writing career to date before you start. If you’re very young, relevant highlights could just be that you’ve always written stories, or that you’re beginning a freelance career.
Your biographies and your ability to write them quickly, is a wonderful skill to have. Practice it, and you’ll be in the top one per cent of writers who treat their writing in a professional manner. Acting like a professional gets you hired. It also gets your books sold. Enjoy writing bios as they’re a wonderful tool.
When you already write your biography, you can start sell your writing. Now every freelance writer and copywriter needs a bio, because people need to know who you are before they’ll hire you. Make sure you have a bio on your Web site. The one you attach to materials you’re sending out, bios for news releases, and a mini-bio you’ll use as a signature on your emails and forum posts.
The essentials or your biography include your name and business name, your contact details, including your phone number and Web site address, and information about you that’s relevant to a specific audience. Make sure to have several biographies so you can send a specific bio when applying for a writing job. Biographies always are tailored to an audience. Remember, all bios are written in the third person and they must be factual. Be interesting as biographies are not resumes or CVs like when you create for a job application.
