Tips For Writing An Essay About Yourself
Many writers can write many books of numerous pages, but if you ask them to write two pages about themselves, they’ll fumble. Most people don’t and cannot write about themselves in a proper way.
Therefore we bring you tips on how you can write an essay about yourself:
1. Create a list of questions –
First of all, you need to create a list of all questions that you need to answer for better clarity.
2. Brainstorm and outline –
Now, as you’ve listed down the questions, make a basic outline on how would you like to answer these questions.
3. Be vulnerable –
When you’re going to write about yourself, you cannot try to hide. The more raw and authentic you go, the more depth the write up will carry with equal impression and influence.
4. Use personal examples –
People don’t pay much heed to your advice until and unless you’ve shown or told them that you’ve already done what you’re saying and you know better because you’ve experiences.
5. Write in the first person –
Never write in second or third person. Using nouns like “you”, “he”, “she”, “them”, “they”, etc are not to be for yourself in your own essay. Simply write as “I”.
6. Don’t be afraid to show off but stay on topic –
If the essay is about you, and you’ve achieved quite something, especially after going through struggles, you can definitely show off a little, but not extreme enough to deviate from your topic.
7. Show personality –
Your personality should be reflected in your write up and a strong personality at that. No one wants to read or listen to a person who doesn’t come across as smart for their inspiration.
8. Know Your Audience –
Before you start writing about yourself, you should be aware of the target audience. Is it for the kids or girls, or guys or men or women or seniors or doctors or engineers or lawyers. Draft your write-up accordingly.
9. Proofread and edit –
Once you’re done with the write-up, you can start proofreading and editing your write-up.
There are many platforms in India which helps you in writing, publishing and promotions of your personal essays.
- Amongst these sites, there’s a newly launched writing, reading and publishing site known as “Shabd” which offers many amazing features like reading books, writing own books or short articles, getting their books published on demand and selling them online, even giving services for marketing and promotions like book reviewing and influencer marketing. Best thing? You can choose whether you want to read and publish your book for free or paid, gaining 80% of the royalties if you keep your book paid.
- You can simply register yourself on Shabd, create an account and start writing right away. Once you’re done with the book, you can publish the book, for free or paid, and can start promoting the URL of the book on all over social media to sell your book online for free. This “How to sell your book” idea is one of the best strategies present today in the digital world.
- So what are you waiting for. If you’re a writer waiting to get published, if you’re an author looking for selling your book online, if you’re ba reader wanting to read a good book, come and join us on Shabd today.