Self-Bio
For some writing applications and whatever, I was asked to submit a half-page biography. This is what I came up with:
"Frances Gonzalez was accidentally conceived but lovingly welcomed (or so she’s told) when she was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1986, to parents who had emigrated from the Philippines the year previous. The City still claims her as its own. Her first foray into writing was in the fourth grade, where she was directed to write a myth using five spelling words. She wrote five pages front and back, two of which were genius and three that shamelessly plagiarized Native American folklore.
"Growing up as a first-generation American involved several culture clashes that left Frances wondering if she would never fit in no matter what continent she was on. She graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Publishing as well as Television Production. Her college was mostly white and she represented the world’s population of Asians in her classmates’ eyes - so she made a point of being terrible at math. Take that! She studied in the Netherlands, where she was mistaken for a Chinese tourist on multiple occasions. Moral: Some stereotypes are funny.
"Frances interned at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in 2007. She submitted a live-action show treatment that was reviewed by Marjorie Cohn (Ms. Cohn found a lot of things wrong with it). She was a finalist in the 2008 WILDsound Television Spec contest for her iCarly spec called “iHate Mobiles,” about Spencer in an art duel against a nutcase named Pierre Sardine. She’s worked as a production assistant, a production coordinator/researcher, and as a set dresser. Her other jobs were in food service. They were pretty bad.
"Writing is the only thing she wants to do with her life, and she will never give up trying to do it. She also plays too many video games with her nephew. He thinks kissing is gross."
ONLY A FOOL WOULD TURN ME AWAY AMIRITE.
"Frances Gonzalez was accidentally conceived but lovingly welcomed (or so she’s told) when she was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1986, to parents who had emigrated from the Philippines the year previous. The City still claims her as its own. Her first foray into writing was in the fourth grade, where she was directed to write a myth using five spelling words. She wrote five pages front and back, two of which were genius and three that shamelessly plagiarized Native American folklore.
"Growing up as a first-generation American involved several culture clashes that left Frances wondering if she would never fit in no matter what continent she was on. She graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Publishing as well as Television Production. Her college was mostly white and she represented the world’s population of Asians in her classmates’ eyes - so she made a point of being terrible at math. Take that! She studied in the Netherlands, where she was mistaken for a Chinese tourist on multiple occasions. Moral: Some stereotypes are funny.
"Frances interned at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in 2007. She submitted a live-action show treatment that was reviewed by Marjorie Cohn (Ms. Cohn found a lot of things wrong with it). She was a finalist in the 2008 WILDsound Television Spec contest for her iCarly spec called “iHate Mobiles,” about Spencer in an art duel against a nutcase named Pierre Sardine. She’s worked as a production assistant, a production coordinator/researcher, and as a set dresser. Her other jobs were in food service. They were pretty bad.
"Writing is the only thing she wants to do with her life, and she will never give up trying to do it. She also plays too many video games with her nephew. He thinks kissing is gross."
ONLY A FOOL WOULD TURN ME AWAY AMIRITE.