Get into freelance writing, they said. It'll be fun, they said.
How hard can it be? I like to write. I'll write about anything. So I did. I wrote a few essays, searched for appropriate publications and was all set to submit, until the scary part happened.
"Please provide a short bio."
Why is this the hardest part of writing? Why can I write a 1,000 word essay about my niece, detailing exactly who she is and I can't find "less than 400 words" to say about myself?
I'm an attorney. Great--I hate that. I hate identifying myself by my job.
I run. Oh, so you run for a team? No. Training for the Olympics? Nope. I run because I hate stress and love pizza.
What do you do for fun? Well, my dog has some interesting personality quirks and that takes up a lot of my free time. I read. I write, obviously. Occasionally, I even interact with other humans.
Freelance writing is already more difficult than I thought, and I haven't even hit submit.
If anyone's reading this, leave a thought. How do you describe yourself? What is that makes you so uniquely you that no one else's 400 words or less would be the same?
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