What I Learned From Writing My Online Dating Profile

I fancy myself a pretty decent writer. I’ve been known to make a little magic on the page. Writing my profile for a dating site shouldn’t have been that much of a challenge, or so I thought until I actually sat down to do it.

I’d been going back and forth about whether I wanted to try online dating or not. That’s a whole other blog by itself. I decided to either put up or shut up. I’d been hanging out on the sidelines long enough, and it was time to get back in the game. Enough talking. *Alexa play “Boo’d up” by Ella Mai*

I gathered my best pictures, a suitable Spotify playlist, and got busy. Hours of typing and retyping ensued. I was deleting sentences only to paste them back in. I had no idea what to say. Well, actually, there’s a lot of things I could say, but some things just don’t belong on a dating profile unless the goal is to attract creepos and perverts. It was tough trying to find the right words. Just writing about writing my profile is triggering me.

Of course, I think I’m phenomenal, charming, beautiful, smart, funny, and all-around awesome. I’m a walking chocolate wonder, and I’m also incredibly biased, because after all … I’m talking about myself here. Duh. So how does one translate all those adjectives and gooey goodness onto the page without sounding like a raging narcissist? It felt…