Would someone like to write a bio about me?

[Michael]

I'm trying to find a sucker (woops, I mean volunteer ) to write a biography about my parrot experience for my training blog. The good news is that I wrote a factual outline/timeline of all my parrot endeavors to assist you. Also it includes links/citations to all the places you could have found these facts from on your own. So the good news is that I put all the info/sources together to make it easier for you to have a basis of what to write. The bad news is that the outline with list of sources is already 4 pages

I'm looking for someone to write a bio with these facts as a basis but to look at the sources (luckily many are forum posts so if you've been following, you'll already know) and compose a thorough bio of my parrot training experience to date. Facts are facts, but I'm looking for someone to stylize it and write it out with a balanced outside perspective. I'm hoping whoever writes this has reasonable experience with parrots, knows me at least a little bit, has seen/read my stuff before, enjoys writing (ok, more like really enjoys writing cause it could easily take 5-10 pages ), and is willing to stand by what they write and put their name on it.

I could have fairly easily written this myself and half the work is already completed in coming up with the research/outline. But I'd really prefer if this could be written in the third person by an outsider essentially as a recommendation of me for readers of the new blog. So do I have any takers?

[entrancedbymyGCC]

I'm NOT VOLUNTEERING! LOL.

I've had to write bios of myself several times for various professional and hobby/side business purposes. I usually just write it myself in third person.

[Michael]

Yeah well I wouldn't expect you to recommend me even with a gun to your head so no hard feelings

Do you have any ideas how I could entice someone to take on this project short of bribing them (and ruining the objectivity/outside perspective)? I made an outline of all major factual points to make it easier and I provided links to all the places the writer could have learned these things from if they were to take 10x more time to do the research themselves. I'm trying to make it as easy as possible on whoever does it but it's still hard to find someone to do this.

[entrancedbymyGCC]

Oh, I'm not that bad! I do listen to what you say, I just don't agree on everything. I recognize you have extremely good training skills, among other things. I think if I had a tardis and caught up with you 20 years from now, we'd get on a bit better.

I think the only reason someone would want to take this on is either because they need practice writing bios or because they are so darned enthusiastic about you that they just want to do anything to help -- do you have any groupies? Seriously, why would someone want to bite off extra work when they could be finger-babbling on a forum? You could consider hiring a professional publicist.

IMO, the usual expectation with these things is that they are self-promoting and people almost expect to "hear" the target person's "voice" . I do, however, appreciate your desire to get a fresh perspective.

[Michael]

Ok, here's my bio. Any feedback, spelling mistakes, or comments are appreciated:

http://trainedparrot.com/about.php

If anyone would like to add a kind of recommendation/testimonial for the end, let me know. Thanks.

[Brittanyv326]

Advanced Flight Phase, par. 2: "This lead Michael to considering a Cape Parrot vs. African Grey and thus he came in contact with Jean Pattison of African Queen Aviaries."

"lead" should be led and "considering" sounds better as consider.

That was the only sentence I had a problem with out of the whole thing. To be honest, I at first was not interested in reading it. Once I started though, the author's writing style had such a great flow to it that I read it from start to end without hesitation. Very well done. And I'm sorry to hear about the loss of Spock and Duke.

[Michael]

Thanks for the correction. I'm curious why you weren't interested in reading the beginning? What could have been done otherwise to entice you to read it straight out? Any constructive criticism will help make it more interesting and reader oriented.

I'll make those corrections tomorrow.

[skeetersunconure]

sounds good! just read it

[Brittanyv326]

I'm just a fiction-only reader unless I need a question answered (or need to study for school). I had no questions about you, so I had no interest. But you were much more interesting than I thought! By the way, I'm a psychology major myself. I did wonder at that point what was your major? Your minor is mentioned but not your major. Maybe what degree you got, how far you went in school could be added in there, that did spark my interest and I do remember somewhere else on here someone asking you if you took psychology classes since you're so well versed in reinforcement and training techniques.

I give a big to the bio overall!

[Michael]

Thanks. My major is pretty irrelevant to parrot training specifically. I majored in Business Technology Management with a minor in Psychology. I started out minoring in psych only cause it was easy/convenient but I began to get more interested as I went along. Then of course when I started applying it to parrots was when I got really interested in it. I really don't care much about human psychology (except maybe a bit where it overlaps with business and marketing).