Your Skills

Whether you feel like the best or the worst writer in the world, I'm sure you can talk, with competence and confidence, about the skill it takes and the pleasure it gives you to do--and be--a certain something. So I invite you to share your enthusiasm for doing--and being--something you enjoy.

Present yourself, in writing, in a role that permits you to talk about whatever you know and do best.

For example, describe: playing the old-fashioned board game of your childhood days, or the latest version of your favorite electronic competition; playing a musical instrument, or an athletic game; the singing, dancing or acting that delights you; the fishing that takes you to a promising body of water, or the hunting that takes you into open field and woods; making useful or beautiful with your own skillful hands; collecting stamps, baseball cards, or seashells; computer hacking; fixing motorcycles; gardening; baking bread.

With the sound of your voice on paper, take your reader with you to a place where you've spent many happy hours doing something you enjoy doing. Were you surrounded by the comforts of a family room, or the excitement of a club or gym? Or maybe you remember being all alone practicing for a concert, or memorizing your lines before the first rehearsal. Whatever your choice, let your reader see what happens both on stage and backstage; while casting out and reeling in; while stalking your prey before sunup and after sundown. Let you reader see you showing off, or simply enjoying, the continuing development of your competence.

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