Dianne Jacob, Will Write For Food
Useful Tips, Interviews, and Stories to Inspire Food Writers and Bloggers
Now that you have more spare time, how about a fun writing exercise? Think of it as a break from making sourdough bread, or searching for toilet paper.
People love food writing prompts. Readers give me good feedback about my food writing exercises in each chapter of Will Write for Food. And when I give out a prompt during
[Read more…] about 10 Food Writing Prompts to Try
A guest post by Joy Manning
If you work from home due to the coronavirus, would you like to be more productive? Here’s help. I’ve been a work from home food writer, whether full or part-time, on staff or as a freelancer, for 10 years. If you are trying to get into the flow, here are my own best practices, routines, and mindsets that have served me well over the past decade.
Before I get to my daily routine for the week, I set up on Sunday. I make a new list of goals and tasks for the week. Then I schedule my workouts for the week on my Google calendar. Moving my body [Read more…] about Work from Home Wisdom for Food Writers
By Vicky Cohen and Ruth Fox of MayIHaveThatRecipe.com
We get it. Many people who search for recipes online want food bloggers to stick to recipes. They don’t want a backstory, tips on how to make the dish — none of that “nonsense.”
We’ve all seen the tweets:
“Why does every recipe have to have a mini-essay preceding it? #justgivemetherecipe”
“If you blog an 8-page life story about a recipe that you have instead of getting straight to the point, then you deserve to be judo chopped in the neck and I will forever pray that a swarm of bees follow you around for the rest of your life. #justgivemetherecipe”
Apparently, no one has the time or patience to scroll for 30 seconds (unless they’re scrolling through their Facebook or Instagram feed), to find what they came for.
For food bloggers like us, it’s annoying. Sometimes it’s infuriating. Because [Read more…] about Why Food Bloggers Don’t Just “Stick to Recipes”
It’s hard to keep up with all the posts that speak to our lives as writers, bloggers, food lovers and cooks. There are so many irresistible links for food writers and bloggers. And not just fun posts but useful, inspiring pieces that make you think.
So I keep up for you. I scour social media, Facebook groups, newsletters and other media to find what interests me and I hope by extension, you. Usually I put them in [Read more…] about 25 Irresistible Links for Food Writers and Bloggers
A guest post by Kristen Hartke
I’m always surprised when writers ask me for tips about being a “successful” freelance writer. That’s because, like most writers, I live in a world where rejection is the norm. I do, however, have my work published somewhat regularly. It could be due to [Read more…] about Pitch It Until it Sells
A guest post by Susie Norris
I sent off the proposal for my third cookbook with a hopeful heart. I had a good agent, a new IACP Digital Media Award for FoodMarketGypsy.com, my culinary travel blog, and thousands of Twitter followers. Creating a self-published cookbook was not on my mind.
But the news was bad: traditional publishers now found my platform too modest. After a lifetime of baking and teaching the classics, I knew I had [Read more…] about Build a Platform with a Self-Published Cookbook
I’ve been thinking about the growing power of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts and their advice. Hiring them has been a powerful way for food bloggers to learn the SEO rules for food blogs and increase their readership.
I’m all for that. I try for good SEO in my posts as well.
But do the changes these experts advise also [Read more…] about How SEO Rules for Food Blogs Can Make Them Less Effective
