Zero’s narrator grew up in Connecticut, but spent six years living elsewhere. She spent four years studying philosophy, music, psychology, gender issues, and a myriad of other topics at small liberal arts colleges. She completed her undergraduate degree in 2007. After spending her college years in Santa Fe, New Mexico and midcoast Maine, and galavanting around western Massachusetts during the two years following, she ran out of money and moved back in with her parents in Connecticut.
When she’s not playing or listening to live music, the author enjoys writing, baking delicious vegan food, and photographing her cat. Her unhealthy obsession with felines is exacerbated through her rewarding employment with a local humane society, where she has worked for nearly four years. She loves this meaningful and important work despite its inability to pay a useful wage.
In September 2011, the author enrolled in the Interactive Media program at Quinnipiac University. This blog is a direct result of one of her courses at the University. She hopes to complete the program in 2013 and then find a job that pays the rent (which will allow her to adopt several more felines). She will likely always devote her free time to local animal organizations, as that is her passion.
I really like your writing style. You pay attention to detail and show that through using great verbs!
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A concise biography; direct and purposeful sentences. But at the cost of specifics, perhaps. We know what you studied, generally, what exactly was your major when you graduated? We know why the blog, but why the cat—why Zero? What kind of music does the author play, and will it "play" into her new degree somehow? In defense, of course now I would expect to find these answers somewhere in your blog, but it would help to have some specifics to anchor my expectations of the works' content.
ReplyDeleteYes, I understand what you're saying. I didn't want to get too specific because we're going for anonymity.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Dvosara Ten that you have a nice concise biography. Like me, you had the choice between narrator and persona, and we both went third person. If I were to re-write I would do so strictly as the Ghost, I think. Perhaps you could have loosened your voice and placed your bio as if written by Zero (I think that would be fun).
My only issue is where you mention an unhealthy cat obsession, and speak both positively and negatively about working with the humane society. I think that detracts from your voice (though I think you're being intentionally hunorous there) - I think you could rewrite that emphasising the positive aspects while still noting the negatives ("working with animals every day is worth a diet of ramen noodles").
When Prof. Kalm said in his instructions, "Write a short biography like you would for a magazine featuring your work," I took that to heart. Those are always written in the third person. I'd rather have written it in the first person, but because I typically avoid writing in the third person, I thought this assignment was a good experiment. Magazine bios are usually short and to the point. In fact, they are usually much shorter than mine!
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