Writing Your Best Online Dating Profile, Part 3: The Final Copy

You’ve done your brainstorming, you’ve written your first draft, and now you’re ready to craft your awesome dating profile. Remember that short and sweet is the way to go – think of your dating profile as the back cover to your autobiography. Make the snippet of your life so interesting that people just have to pick you up! (Pun intended!)

If you remember, I had written a few sentences about myself in my first draft:

• I started my own business a couple years ago to help people find love through online dating.
• I love to write. It doesn’t even feel like work most of the time.
• It’s great to be my own boss.
• It’s awesome when my clients come back later to tell me that their profile worked and they got lots of dates and met someone special!
• Having a business is stressful at times, but I love it.

Now I just need to put it together in a coherent paragraph:

My boss demands utter perfection. She makes me work long hours and tells me it’ll all be worth it one day when she’s vacationing in Maui. Good thing that boss is ME! I’m a writer who specializes in dating profiles and really, I’d skip the vacation in Maui as long as I keep hearing from happy clients who are finding love thanks to my handiwork. When I’m not surgically attached to my laptop, you’ll find me rollerblading, swing dancing, or playing Dungeons & Dragons. (Yeah, I’m a geek. You grok?)

I can do the same for my sentences about my match:

• My match is the kind of guy who describes himself as a geek.
• He’s the kind of guy who doesn’t mind being a kid sometime and going out for mini-golf and ice cream.
• He loves cats (or at least loves my cats!).
• He’s educated, either school of life or higher education.

Those turn into:

My ideal match is probably a geek, too. What can I say, it’s just my type! He’s got an amount of brains that a zombie would love to feast upon. Whether he got his education from a university – doctorates are sexy! – or from the school of life, he’s a smart cookie who is just plain fun to talk with for hours. He’s the type of guy who embraces his inner child, hugs my cats, and squeezes me tight whenever we say goodbye! Is that you? Send me an email and let’s talk about those braiiiiiiins...

All done? Not quite. This profile needs a headline... but that’s a whole new article!