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Editors’ bios
Writer’s Block for Editors Who Write Their Own Bios
My bio. Kinda. Sort of. Well, close enough.
What could I possibly say about myself that anyone would actually want to hear?
The age-old question every writer asks themselves as they sit down to a blank screen and annoying, hyperactive cursor blinking its little self like it’s had one too many Red Bulls.
I don’t have a problem with writer’s block. It’s been a very long time, years even since I have. I have the opposite problem. I can’t shut up! I have more ideas floating in my head than I have time or energy to write.
That is, until now.
“Every writer should have a bio!”, is what I’ve heard more than once in the last six months. My current bio on this platform simply states, “I’m thinking…I’m thinking…” My mind goes blank.
It isn’t like I haven’t tried, but the attempt at bios always either ends up sounding like a resume or a profile on a sketchy dating app.
“36 SWF, looking for a BFF. No sex. Call me.”
“1999–2006, worked for the feds. I can tell you, but then, I’d have to kill you.”
I mean, really. Come on. What’s there to tell?