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How To Write A Bio
By Joshua Jenkins
How to write a bio
If you want to learn how to write a bio your best point of reference is to read others. There is an endless amount of bios available at libraries and bookstores. There is even often a section for them. Have a read of a few and become familiar with the style, what is the mood of the writing? Do you want to write in a similar style? Biographies are very personal and informative pieces of writing and should be treated carefully. You should always be aware that there is more than one version of any story, and with this in mind, use your subjectiveness carefully.
To write an effective bio you need to be well acquainted with the person you are writing about. If this person is a friend or family member then it is easy, spend as much time with them as possible, this will help you write about them. If they are not someone you know well, this may prove a more difficult task. Scheduled interviews could be a good way of getting to know them, make them as informal as possible, this will greatly increase the flow of information and help them relax and share. The selling point of a bio is its ability to tell a very intimate and personal story. It is the allure of finding out information that is unique or obscure that makes people buy them. With this in mind, when you are learning how to write a bio you should be thinking about those little pieces of information that are otherwise lost only to memory, it is now your job to make those things known, to write them down.
As you get to know or spend lots of time with your subject you will learn their way of doing things. How they talk and tell stories, how they behave in situations, how they like their tea and how they make love. All of these things help paint a picture of the person, making up the very character that you are trying to describe. When you write a bio you are trying to create a complete portrait of someone. This means that the colour of their hair and their choice of toilet paper can be as equally as interesting as the more exciting things like who they have slept with or where they were born. That doesn't mean you should put every tiny piece of info in the bio, this will just bore the audience. It is a balance of the mundane and the sensational that makes a bio worthwhile. The true fans will appreciate the tiny details whilst the casual reader will be given the broad picture.
After you have collated a whole lot of information it is time to put it into and order, adding linguistic flare to the narrative as you do. It is not the facts that make it interesting but more the way the facts are put together. After you have put things in order you bio should be ready to be sent to a publisher. Have a look at what publishers' books you enjoy or may be similar to your bio, this will help you decide which publishers to send it to.
Writing a bio is a very interesting and engrossing thing to do. It requires a lot of patience and persistence, stretching your creative abilities but will eventuate as a truly rewarding project if you pore your energies into it. Good Luck with your bio!
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