When writing about yourself
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- sputnik20
only use "i" please. anything else is so pretentious and lame.
- killthefish0
Writing like you're "I" implies that you're on yourself, like right on top of, but not behind your face. There's a temptation to write like "he" or third person, but then everybody thinks you're talking about somebody else, and you're the guy (or persons) behind the face but then you're also NOT NOTICED behind the face, because of that.
If for size you'd try 2nd (not 22nd) person, for instance, "You graduated in 1990 with really big arms and a gigantic wad of something disgusting stuck to your shoulders. You learned QuarkXPress for Technical Manuals before it fell off the monitor into the desk drawer. You have worked since 2002 as a mission control specialist at a Secret Ninja School." you'd then find that you are right on the top of the list (your resume,) as nobody's clear on who's behind the face but they know it might be their own self, and that could mean the future is talking. EVERYBODY LISTENS when the future is, or might be, talking.
- barbara0
neither. and try to make yourself sound like a superhero.
repeating your name only makes you sound like a weinerdog.
- Jaline0
Use "I" if you really have to. Never 3rd person.
If possible, don't use either. Or try to use "I" or your name less. I would even go with point form sometimes, but obviously this is not always professional.
- I don't see how it'd be possible to write about what I do without using "I" or my name.jkmohr
- neue75_bold0
both...
- detritus0
I, [insert name here] (hereafter referred to as THE DUDE) ...
- vanilla_cam0
i use my qbn handle. works everytime.
- flashbender0
that 3rd person talk is compleate bullshit.
Well, Mike Tyson thinks that it was a travesty of justice that Mike Tyson was locked up for so long.
I hate that. Use "I"
- CALLES0
sometimes i think that the shit that happens to me i could not come up with... my life is better than fiction
- Koopsy0
I don't say 'he' or 'I', I say 'ME', like a caveman, and I miss out words of only two letters or less.
And always use the present tense.
- MSTRPLN0
refer to yourself as "we"
- jkmohr0
Perfect, thanks guys. Good to know I can come here and get some actual answers rather than lolcats.
- mg330
On a sidenote, this reminds me the not-so-long-ago era of freelancers masquerading as full blown studios and referring to themselves in third person, talking about all kinds of people that work with them, when it was really just them.
- (edits "about us" section of portfolio)somatica
- Funny, I didn't see this before I posted that one note. Basically said the same thing.jkmohr
- actually, they were all just freelancermikotondria3
- somatica0
Use your QBN name and reference specific threads where you learned a thing or two about design. Might I suggest using "The Official NSFW" thread for starters.
- Soler0
I
- chrisRG0
I, always.
Unless I clone myself.
- francoisfido0
second-person