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10 Food Writing Prompts to Try

April 14, 2020 by diannejacob 4 Comments

image for post on food writing prompts.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

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: food writing, Food writing prompts, prompts for writing about food

Submit Your Writing to a New Food Writing Anthology

December 10, 2019 by diannejacob Leave a Comment

image for submitting your writing to an anthologyThere’s a big new game in town, and you can play. Before, Best Food Writing, an anthology compiled by freelance writer Holly Hughes, came out every year. You would submit your writing, and she decided what to accept. That run ended in 2017. 

It’s probably because a new The Best American Food Writing debuted in 2018, published by [Read more…] about Submit Your Writing to a New Food Writing Anthology

Filed Under: Freelancing, Writing Tagged With: anthology of food writing, food writing anthology, submit your writing

7 Ways to Deal with Negative Feedback on Your Writing

October 1, 2019 by diannejacob 2 Comments

image for post on how to deal with negative feedbackNegative feedback on your writing is hard, even when someone delivers it with sensitivity. I got negative feedback regularly from my writing group, but it was rarely as bad as it sounds.

Most of the time, the members were complimentary. When I got negative feedback, I tried to see it from their point of view. Because sometimes I get so [Read more…] about 7 Ways to Deal with Negative Feedback on Your Writing

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: dealing with negative feedback, how to take feedback on writing

Want to Write Cookbook Reviews? Here are 5 Tips

May 28, 2019 by diannejacob 6 Comments

image for cookbook reviewingA guest post by Martha Lorden
 
I love cookbooks, so it’s only natural that I hunger for a way to share my interest and enthusiasm. As a result, I write cookbook reviews for Publishers Weekly (PW), a professional trade magazine designed for the folks who purchase books for libraries and bookstores.
 
PW reviews the latest and hottest cookbooks in 220-word reviews. It’s no easy feat to craft a succinct review of that size that is accurate and fair. In fact, it is maddeningly challenging.

[Read more…] about Want to Write Cookbook Reviews? Here are 5 Tips

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: cookbook reviews, how to write cookbook reviews

If You Want to Write a Biography About a Famous Person or Two…

April 16, 2019 by diannejacob 11 Comments

image for story on writing a biographyAt a conference I attended recently, a panel focused on two kinds of projects: writing a memoir and writing a biography. Moderated by Cara De Silva, the panelists were memoirists Elissa Altman, Mark Russ Federman, Madhur Jaffrey; and biographers Laura Shapiro and Anne Mendelson.

I zeroed in on Anne, author of Stand By the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America the Joy of Cooking. She clutched her typewritten address and read it to the crowd. It was an insightful and wry essay about her experience.

Anne was the biographer of the [Read more…] about If You Want to Write a Biography About a Famous Person or Two…

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Irma S. Rombauer, Mrion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking, Writing a Biography, Writing About a Food Personality

Get Some Humor into Your Food Writing

April 2, 2019 by diannejacob 2 Comments

A guest post by Debbie Moose

The funny thing about being funny is that, once you try writing that way, you probably won’t want to stop. Humorous food writing connects with readers better than [Read more…] about Get Some Humor into Your Food Writing

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: How to be a Humor Writer, Humor in Food Writing, humor writing

Smitten Kitchen Shows You 100 Ways to Promote Recipes

January 15, 2019 by diannejacob 13 Comments

lead image for post about Deb PerelmanOne of the things food writers struggle with most is how to promote recipes in a way that sounds authentic and not too braggy. You know your recipe is “the best,” but you can’t keep saying that for every one you write.

So what can you do to improve your blog posts, recipe headnotes, and social media blurbs? First, I went back to my most visited post: 100 Verbs for Recipes, from Julia Child. Who else could I research, I wondered, who would [Read more…] about Smitten Kitchen Shows You 100 Ways to Promote Recipes

Filed Under: Food Blogging, Social Media, Writing Tagged With: promoting recipes, writing persuasive recipes, writing recipe headnotes, writing recipes

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