Autobiography: M. Elizabeth
Born in Brooklyn, NY on July 28, 1988
Raised in Westfield, NY 07090
Birth Sign: leo
Favorite color: white
Favorite food: bagels
M.Elizabeth was born in Brooklyn, NY and currently resides in Newton, Massachusetts. She went to undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for Studio Art.
M.Elizabeth believes an art degree is extremely important because creativity is one thing you cannot automate. She still paints and loves listening to folk music. She is a runner. M.Elizabeth loves her dog Littlefoot more than anything in the world. The eCommerce field is important to her and she has worked in the industry for almost five years. She is excited to be trying to achieve her MS in Interactive Media with a concentration in UX design.
M.Elizabeth passion is in fashion design. Her dream is to own a store with an omni-channel experience selling her own clothing brand. Currently, she is working on a side hustle, and has designed her first mini dress collection which is all made in the USA in Portland, Maine. The collection will be out early fall. It is a small collection inspired by the 60s. She hopes to have a storefront in Newport, RI over the next three years and use my degree to create an exceptional online experience. If you’d like to see her store she is using shopify as a platform and the web address is shopmaureen.com. She is also dabbling in Instagram and facebook @shopmaureen.
Hi M. Elizabeth. What an interesting topic you're writing about; I look forward to reading more about it as time goes on.
I think writing a blog post/bio in first person makes it more personable in my opinion, but if you're trying to be more businesslike, perhaps third-person's the way to go. I'm going to echo DottyStripes' comment about slipping into first person in the part where you talk about your degree.
I'd recommend combing through the autobiography once or twice more to check for spelling and grammar errors. Sometimes when you read something out loud, you realize what you might've missed!
As I mentioned in the lecture, the key to the module one assignments is audience. How often do you consider yours when writing?
For module two this week, I ask you to write an “about you” page for your blog. The module one assignments are first and second drafts for that “about you.”
The beat defense assignment is usually the better draft because it focuses your writing and story on the interests of your audience. It thinks of your audience.
Yet the autobiography is still helpful. It sets your mind in motion. It helps you consider possible beats. It helps you think about “you the author.” It introduces you to the class.
It’s important to use writing to deliver your…
M.Elizabeth!
"M.Elizabeth" sure does sound like someone interesting and creative! I would really like to get to know 'her' however the third-person delivery keeps me at a distance.
An autobiography written in third person seems a contradiction in terms. However, I do understand how this can happen as I, too, originally wrote my 'autobiography' more formally than I should have, thinking the assignment was for a LinkedIn-type bio.
What I like best about your writing is that your personality still seeps through with the reminder that 'creativity is one thing you cannot automate', with the emotionally revealing 'loves her dog Littlefoot more than anything in the world' and even with the fact that you slipped away from the third person…